Copper+Triangle

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 * **__Copper Triangle__**
 * Walter Watson Hughes discovered copper at Wallaroo in 1860. Patrick Ryan found copper at Moonta in 1861. There was a hurried ride by William Horn to stake a claim for Hughes before others claimed the copper for themselves.
 * Cornish miners came in 1875 to work at Moonta. Moonta District became the most populous town in rural South Australia. The smelters at Wallaroo were the largest in Australia. They ceased in 1923.
 * Hughes’s money went to establish the University of Adelaide. Donations were also made later by Robert Barr Smith.

Newtown, N.S.W. Walker Books Australia, 2014. Twelve-year-old Jack is the oldest son of a family living at the Moonta Mines settlement. Although he is happy and doing well at school, he chooses to leave and work as a picky-boy sorting the ore at the mines with his best mate, Gilbert. The life, however, is hard, and Jack is beset with problems, both at the mine and when he returns to school. Although a little slow to begin with, the novel gathers pace and has a heart-tugging ending. The style is simple, the chapters short, and, read aloud, it would give classes plenty to discuss about the life of colonial children compared to their own lives.
 * That boy, Jack /​ Janeen Brian.

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