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with timber to be used as fuel. An inclined tramway brought the ore, to smelters from the mine that was located in the hills above the village, downhill to where it could be carried over haul roads to the smelter, which was just outside the village. The copper smelter and open-air ore 'calcination'
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The former village and copper smelter site were located on
Yantalla Creek (a tributary of Mann River), between two of its right bank tributaries Bobward Creek and Smelter Creek. Cangai grew rapidly when copper mining commenced. By 1908, it had a population of around 800, and had one hotel, a public
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February 1942. An eroded area alongside Smelter Creek is all that remains of the once extensive copper smelters. All that remains of the village is the former police house and
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In 1861, alluvial gold was found on Mann River at Cangai, followed by the discovery of reef gold. By 1868, other reefs had been found and reef mining came to predominate. The Cangai
Goldfield was proclaimed in 1873. A settlement called Cangai was founded during the days of gold mining. The first
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Grafton Copper Mining Company Limited, from 1905 to 1917. In 1910, the Cangai copper mine ranked, behind the Great Cobar Mine, as the second largest copper mine in New South Wales, by production, even if at a time when many other copper producing areas had closed down.
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