Dundas, Tasmania
| Dundas Tasmania | |
|---|---|
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  Dundas | |
| Coordinates | 41°52′31″S 145°25′15″E / 41.87528°S 145.42083°E |
| Postcode(s) | 7469 |
| LGA(s) | West Coast Council |
| State electorate(s) | Braddon |
| Federal division(s) | Braddon |
Dundas was a historical mining locality, mineral field and railway location on the western foothills of the West Coast Range in Western Tasmania. It is now part of the locality of Zeehan.
Location
[edit]The town was located 5 kilometres east of the town of Zeehan, and almost 10 kilometres west of the Mount Read township. The North East Dundas Tram branched off the Emu Bay Railway approximately 3 kilometres north east of the Dundas railway connection.
The location was hilly and heavily wooded, making the location hazardous in the event of bushfires.[1]
The location, being close to Mount Read, was also prone to heavy rain and cold weather.[2][3]
Mount Dundas Post Office was opened on 22 November 1890, renamed Dundas in 1892 and closed in 1930.[4]
The Zeehan and Dundas Herald (1902–1922) was one of the more significant newspapers of the west coast during its operation.
Mines and minerals
[edit]Silver was discovered early in the Dundas area in 1890,[5] and the name of the Dundas field was incorporated into that of the adjacent Zeehan field.[6]
A number of mines near Dundas are known as locations of rare minerals:[7]
- Adelaide Mine near Dundas was the location of special specimens of crocoite,[8] stichtite[9] and other rare minerals.
- Comet Mine was identified as a location of anglesite, ankerite and cerussite.[10][11]
- Dundasite is named after Dundas.[12]
- Hecla Mine (also known as Hecla Curtin Mine) was identified as a location of aikinite.[13][14]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "TASMANIA". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. No. 11, 933. New South Wales, Australia. 26 January 1892. p. 5. Retrieved 25 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "DUNDAS". Daily Post. Vol. VIII, no. 184. Tasmania, Australia. 7 August 1915. p. 5. Retrieved 25 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "DUNDAS". Zeehan and Dundas Herald. Vol. XVI, no. 151. Tasmania, Australia. 10 April 1905. p. 4. Retrieved 25 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "RICH DISCOVERIES OF SILVER AT DUNDAS, TASMANIA". The Colac Herald. Vol. XXI, no. 2091. Victoria, Australia. 23 September 1890. p. 3. Retrieved 25 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "ZEEHAN-DUNDAS SILVER-FIELD, TASMANIA". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 13, 928. Victoria, Australia. 13 February 1891. p. 7. Retrieved 25 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Tasmania. Department of Mines; Petterd, W. F. (William Frederick). Catalogue of mineral of Tasmania; Geological Survey of Tasmania (1970), "Catalogue of the minerals of Tasmania", Mineralogical Magazine, 38 (299) (Rev. and amended 1969 ed.), Hobart: 901, Bibcode:1972MinM...38..901E, doi:10.1180/minmag.1972.038.299.19, retrieved 17 April 2017
- ^ "OLD MINER DISPLAYS RARE ORE SAMPLE". The Mercury. Vol. CLXXIV, no. 26, 036. Tasmania, Australia. 5 June 1954. p. 23. Retrieved 26 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "STICHTITE". Daily Telegraph. Vol. XXXIV, no. 225. Tasmania, Australia. 21 September 1914. p. 2. Retrieved 26 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Comet Mine". Daily Telegraph. Vol. XXVI, no. 257. Tasmania, Australia. 27 October 1906. p. 4. Retrieved 30 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Comet Mine". The Advocate (Australia). Tasmania, Australia. 9 April 1927. p. 8. Retrieved 30 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "The Mineral Dundasite". Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery. Retrieved 16 October 2009.
- ^ "Hecla Curtin mine". Launceston Examiner. Vol. LVII, no. 131. Tasmania, Australia. 3 June 1897. p. 3. Retrieved 30 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Mining news. The Hecla Mine". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XLVIII, no. 14, 312. South Australia. 16 May 1911. p. 1 (5 o'clock.). Retrieved 30 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
Further reading
[edit]Specific
[edit]- Bottrill, R.S., Williams, P., Dohnt, S., Sorrell, S. and Kemp, N.R. 2006. Crocoite and associated minerals from Dundas and other locations in Tasmania. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, (Dundas Issue) 12, 59-90
- Bottrill, R. S. (2000) New minerals from old deposits: The Dundas Mineral Field, Tasmania in Abstracts Minerals and Museums 2000: 4th seminar. Melbourne, Victoria, June 2000.
- Reid, A. McIntosh. (1925) The Dundas mineral field Geological Survey Bulletin 36, Dept. of Mines, Hobart, Tasmania.
- Tilley, Wilberton. (1891) The wild west of Tasmania : being a description of the silver fields of Zeehan and DundasEvershed Bros., Zeehan, Tas. : Dundas, Tas. :
- Eaves, Rick (14 April 2017). "Dundas, long dead, lives on in new museum". ABC News.
Region
[edit]- Haupt, J., 1988: Minerals of Western Tasmania. Mineralogical Record, Australia Issue, 196, 381-388
- Atkinson, H.K. (1991). Railway Tickets of Tasmania. Regal Publications. ISBN 0-9598718-7-X.
- Blainey, Geoffrey (2000). The Peaks of Lyell (6th ed.). Hobart: St. David's Park Publishing. ISBN 0-7246-2265-9.
- Whitham, Charles (2003). Western Tasmania — A land of riches and beauty (Reprint 2003 ed.). Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown.