The Zeehan School of Mines and Metallurgy was a Mining college in Main Street,

Zeehan Zeehan is a town on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia south-west of Burnie. It is part of the West Coast Council, along with the seaport Strahan, and neighbouring mining towns of Dundas, Rosebery and Queenstown. History The greater ...

West Coast Tasmania The West Coast of Tasmania is mainly isolated rough country, associated with wilderness, mining and tourism. It served as the location of an early convict settlement in the early history of Van Diemen's Land, and contrasts sharply with the mor ...

, Australia. It commenced during the height of the ''silver boom'' in the

Zeehan mineral field Zeehan mineral field is a mining area near Zeehan in Western Tasmania, Australia. The field is frequently associated with the short lived shallow silver deposits in the field, which peaked in the 1890s and early 1900s, and had faded by the time o ...

. The committee to found the school was formed in January 1892, by 1896 there were instructors involved, and in February 1903 the building was complete. Following the decline of the Zeehan mineral field it became part-time by 1921, and it closed in 1958. The buildings and collections of the college were retained to make up part of what was first the 'West Coast Pioneers Museum' which started in 1965, and which is now known as the

West Coast Heritage Centre West Coast Heritage Centre (formerly known as the West Coast Pioneers Museum) is a complex of buildings and collections in Main Street of Zeehan, Tasmania in West Coast Tasmania in Australia. The complex and centre are currently (2016) managed b ...

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{{coord missing, Tasmania Zeehan Schools of mines in Australia Mining in Tasmania 1903 establishments in Australia 1958 disestablishments in Australia Metallurgical industry of Australia