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Barclay's Battery
Barclay's Battery is a heritage-listed stamper battery at Collinsville road, Mount Coolon, Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1914 to 1932. It is also known as Mount Coolon Gold Mines Battery. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 17 May 2004. History Mount Coolon is situated approximately south-west of Collinsville, and north of Clermont. Luke Reynolds, a jackeroo from Yacamunda station, discovered gold there in 1913. Thomas Coolon was the first to peg a claim in 1914, but other claims were quickly taken up, including one of the most active prospectors, James Barclay. James Barclay mined gold, at what became the Native Bear lease, from 1914 when he constructed a 5 head battery on the present site at Police Creek, from the mine. In 1917, the Sydney lease owners Hooke and Sutherland erected 10 stamps nearby, and Barclay consolidated claims to form the Native Bear lease, which was the most valuable section of the gold lode. That sa ...
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Mount Coolon, Queensland
Mount Coolon is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Mount Coolon had a population of 172 people. Geography The Suttor River rises here. The river marks part of the eastern and all of the southern and western boundaries of Mount Coolon. The Sellheim River forms a small section of the northern border. The landscape is dotted with many waterholes and numerous peaks belonging to the Leichhardt Range. Mount Coolon has the following mountains: * Beaucazon Peak () * Bulgonunna Peak () * Bungobine Peak () * Carey Guille () * Mount Carmel () * Mount Douglas () * Mount Harry Marsh () * Mount Kroman () * Mount Loudon () * Mount Manaman () * Mount Patterson () * Mount Tindale () * Norcot Peak () * Rodborough Hill () * Scartwater Hill () * The Tor () * Whitestone Peak () History Mount Coolon was originally called ''Koala'', and was founded on Yangga tribal lands. It w ...
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