Copper+Mines+at+Kapunda+and+Burra

Please click here to return to Year 5 Topics In 1842 Francis Dutton and Captain Bagot’s son separately discovered copper at Kapunda. They bought 30 hectares, imported Cornish miners and began mining. Kapunda is the oldest mining town in Australia. In 1845 copper was discovered by a shepherd at Burra. Both mines lasted until the 1880s. Hampstead Gardens, S.A. : Austaprint, [1979?]. Rob Charlton's book has had several reprints and remains the prime reference for many aspects of Kapunda;s history, including its mines and its church history. || || Article about the Kapunda and Burra copper mines, with many coloured illustrations, in the "Australian Heritage" Magazine
 * The history of Kapunda / by Rob Charlton.

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