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Conference Paper

Author: Kerr, R. S.
Title: The Stannary Hills and Irvinebank Tramways in Northern Queensland: A Window into Our Mining Heritage
In: Fifth National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1990: Interpreting Engineering Heritage; Preprints of Papers
Imprint: Institution of Engineers, Australia. Western Australian Division, Perth, Western Australia, 1990, pp. 115-121
ISBN/ISSN: 0909421234
Url: https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.624725667558095
Abstract: The Irvinebank and Stannary Hills Tramways which operated from 1900 to 1942 extended twenty-eight miles through some of the most spectacular gorge country and open forest country in the Cairns Hinterland in North Queensland. This paper is a review of both of them in relation to mining heritage.

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