Moonta Mines News Today

New research is showing mine waste could help unlock critical metals to supply global minerals shortages, with a report pinpointing high-potential resources across South Australia.

The backing of the state government has progressed the case for Cornish mining sites in Burra and Moonta to be considered for World Heritage status.

COPPER Coast Council and the National Trust of South Australia are working together to keep the Moonta Mines Uniting Church in community control. Council and the National Trust lodged a joint expression of interest to purchase the building yesterday...

Date Time Little Cornwall heritage is ‘gold’ The Moonta Mines are one of the finest examples of Cornish mining architecture in Australia. Photo Evelyn Low Settlement and development of South Australia’s copper ‘triangle’ by Cornish miners not only helped put the colony on the road to prosperity but remains a showcase of early industrial and mining history in the Southern Hemisphere, says leading historian Professor Philip Payton. From the 1840s – a decade before Victoria’s colonia...