Seventy Mile is a rural

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Seventy Mile had a population of 204 people.

Geography

The locality is bounded to the east by Lake Dalrymple, which is the impoundment of a number of rivers, including the

Burdekin River The Burdekin River is a river in North and Far North Queensland, Australia. The river rises on the northern slopes of Boulder Mountain at Valley of Lagoons, part of the western slope of the Seaview Range, and flows into the Coral Sea at Upsta ...

(which bounds the locality to the north-east) and its tributary the Broughton River (which bounds the locality to the north), and by the

Suttor River The Suttor River is a river in Central Queensland, Australia. The Belyando River is its main tributary. The river has its origins in the Leichhardt Range, north west of Glenden. It flows into Lake Dalrymple, becoming a tributary of the Burdek ...

(which bounds the locality to the south-east). The terrain is mountainous with numerous named peaks: * Black Knob () * Blackfellow Mountain (The Pinnacles) () * Camp Oven Mountain () * Cornishman () * Matthews Pinnacle () * Mount Alma () * Mount Billygoat () * Mount Clarke () * Mount Cooper () * Mount Deane () * Mount Farrenden () * Mount Janet () * Mount Mawe () * Mount Molly Darling () * Mount Nolan () * Mount Ross () * Mount Sebastopol () * Mount Sunrise () * Quinton Hill () * Seventy Mile Mountain () In addition, there were previously two other mountains in the north-west of the locality which no longer exist as they were excavated as part of the Mount Leyshon gold mine: * the former Mount Leyshon () originally * the former Golden Horn () The land use is predominantly

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on native vegetation.

History

Gold was discovered in the area in 1872. The gold mine at Mount Leyshon was developed in 1888. Mount Leyshon Provisional School opened circa 1890 and became Mount Leyshon State School on 1 January 1909. It closed in 1927 due to low attendances. It reopened in 1930 before finally closing circa 1931. The Mount Leyshon mine reopened as an open pit mine in 1987 and operated until 2002. During that time, it produced 2.5 million ounces of gold and 2.3 million ounces of silver.

Demographics

In the , Seventy Mile had a population of 231 people. In the , Seventy Mile had a population of 204 people.

Education

There are no schools in Seventy Mile. For students living in the north of the locality, the nearest government primary schools are Millchester State School in Millchester in Charters Towers and

Charters Towers Central State School Charters Towers Central State School is a heritage-listed state school at 39–47 High Street, Charters Towers City, Queensland, Charters Towers City, Charters Towers, Queensland, Charters Towers, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. ...

in Charters Towers CBD, while the nearest government secondary school is Charters Towers State High School, also in Charters Towers CBD. There are also non-government schools in Charters Towers. For students living in the north-east of the locality, the nearest government primary school is Ravenswood State School in Ravenswood to the north-east, but the nearest secondary schools are in Charters Towers and probably too distant for these students with the options being

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and boarding school. For students in other parts of the locality, there are no nearby schools and the options are distance education and boarding school.

References

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