The mines of the West Coast of Tasmania have a rich historical heritage as well as an important mineralogical value in containing or having had found, specimens of rare and unusual minerals. Also, the various mining fields have important roles in the understanding of the mineralization of the Mount Read Volcanics, and the occurrence of economic minerals.
List of named mines The list below is a partial collation of the names of mines that have existed, a considerable number are found on or adjacent to the West Coast Range. Other mines and leases with different names may have existed.
Notes The place names after the name of the mine are as found in records, and may not be accurate. Where possible, subheadings are created for entries such as Mount Lyell, where different workings at the mine were named, and some common usages do not necessarily relate to company or Mines Department records It is not a list of exploration leases, or "finds" where a mineral has been found on the west coast.
* Adelaide Proprietary Mine, Dundas Austral Mine,Note that newspaper reports call this mine the 'Austral Valley Mine' Zeehan Boulder Mine, North Dundas Britannia Mine, Zeehan British-Zeehan Mine, Zeehan Central Balstrup Mine, Zeehan Colebrook Mine, Rosebery Comet Mine, Dundas Comstock Mine, Zeehan Cumberland Tin Mine, Mount Heemskirk Curtin Davis Mine, Dundas Dundas Extended, Dundas East Hercules Mine, Rosebery Farrell Mine, Tullah (also as North Farrell) Federation Mine, Mount Heemskirk Fraser Creek Mine, North East Dundas Grubbs Mine, ZeehanAlthough a report about of number of mines, Grubbs is in the middle of the article Hal Jukes, Mount Jukes Hecla Curtin Mine, Dundas Henty Gold Mine, Henty River Hercules Mine, Mount Read Hydes, Mount Jukes (West) Jukes Proprietary, Mount Jukes Junction Mine, Zeehan King Jukes Mine, Crotty Lake Jukes, Crotty Magnet Mine, Waratah page 10 Maynes Mine, Mount Heemskirk Melba Mine, North Dundas Montana Mine, Zeehan Montana Western Extended Mine Mount Black Mine, Rosbery Mount Bischoff tin mine, Mount Bischoff Mount Darwin, Mount Darwin, Mount Farrell Mine, Tullah Mount Lindsay Mine, Parsons Hood Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company operations at Mount Lyell, Queenstown Cape Horn Comstock (also known as Lyell Comstock, in close proximity to Cape Horn) page 375 with company operations described Crown Lyell Flux Quarry Iron Blow – site lost with opening of the large open cut Lyell Blocksreferring to the Blocks company Open Cut (see also West Lyell Open Cut) Prince Lyell Royal Tharsis Open cut Royal Tharsis underground Tharsis Twelve West West Lyell (also known as the West Lyell Open Cut) West Tharsis North Farrell Mine, Tullah North Mount Lyell, Gormanston Oonah Mine, Zeehan Queen Jukes, Mount Jukes Prince Darwin, Mount Darwin Razorback Mine, Dundas Renison Bell Mine, Renison Bell Silver Queen Mine, Zeehan Silversteam Mine, Zeehan Spray Mine, Zeehan Susanite Mine, Zeehan Tasmanian Copper Mine, Rosebery Taylours Reward, Mount Jukes Tenth Legion Mine, Zeehan West Comet Mine, Dundas
List of mining field names There are also designated mineral or mining 'fields' by government authority.
Dundas Jukes-Darwin Mining Field Mount Farrell Mining Field North Dundas North Heemskirk Read – Rosebery Rosebery South Heemskirk Zeehan
Mining fields 1881-1890 Earlier informally named areas - Source: Binks 1988 - map 3 - pages 54–55
Corrinna alluvial gold field South Heemskirk tin field Zeehan silver-lead field Dundas silver-lead field North East Dundas gold field, Ring River King River gold mine Princess River gold mine Linda gold field
Smelters Crotty Mount Lyell Tasmanian Metals Extraction Company, Rosebery, smelter
Railways, trams and haulages
Training and educational Mt Lyell School of Mines and Industries in Queenstown Zeehan School of Mines and Metallurgy
See also Geology of Tasmania West Coast Range
Notes
References
Tuma, Andrew and Bottrill, R.S.(2006) "The minerals of Western Tasmania:Introduction, history and geological setting" in Australian Journal of Mineralogy, volume 12, No.2, December 2006