Cloncurry - Mt Isa
Towns
Agate
Alchins Camp
Ballara
Bower Bird
Bulonga
Burns Camp
Butru
Cassidys Nine Mile Well.
Dobbyn
Dolomite Camp
Fishers Creek
Friezland
Gunpowder
Hares Camp
Hightville
Hogans Well
Kalkadoon
Koolmarra
Kuridala
Lady Fanny Camp
Longamundi
Marrabah
Mary Kathleen
May Downs
McGregor Junction
Mount Cobalt
Mount Cuthbert
Mount Oxide
Murphys Camp
Pride Camp
Selwyn
Soldiers Gap
Spring Camp
The Gorge
Tick Hill
Top Camp
Trekelano
Turners Camp
Von Bremens Camp
Waggabundi
Selwyn - Cloncurry District
Selwyn actually lies outside the scope of this book. It is included however, because it is the terminus for the railway line from Cloncurry through Malbon and Kuridala which reached Selwyn on 15th December 1910.
The town takes its name from the Selwyn Ranges which were named after the Victorian Government Geologist A.R.C.Selwyn. The mine plant cost £10,000 and the smelter £80,000. By 1915 £2 million worth of copper was produced.
By November 1918 there were 4,000 tons of copper stacked ready for transport but the market collapsed and 650 men were laid off at Selwyn. In total, the smelters produced 27,000 tons of copper.
By 1913 there were 1,000 people growing to 1,500 by 1918 then rapidly declining. Two cabinet ministers came from Selwyn. Today, only the railway formation and foundations remain of the town site with the chimney on the smelter site. In 1993 the Arimco Mining Group reopened the mine which went under several names including Starra and Selwyn mines before closing in 2003.
Read the story of James Elliott, wrongly sentenced for a crime, found Copper and retired to Cloncurry and also the beer strike