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Gold was sluiced at Rae's Point on Ewingar Creek (top of the mountain) in 1905. Even back then it was well known for its smokey quartz. This illustration taken from a local newspaper of that era purports to show the diggings. The illustration features a miner's hut. A miner's hut stood at...

The New South Wales section completely fails to mention Lionsville, Solferino and Lunatic. Solferino in the 1870s. Lionsville as at 1935 Garibaldi gold mine boiler on the old site of Solferino Garibaldi calcite crystal mine which was a huge tourist attraction in the 1880s at Solferino

Memories! The Yowies would come around at night and pinch my food and drink my beer. Now the huts and the yowies are gone!

the mudmap is derived from the little booklet "Mudmaps in Queensland" published in 1973. since then, there have been 3 major floods dumping a lot of silt from the river on to bay foreshores (giving new life to the term "mud" in "mudmap"). the booklet is as rare as hen's teeth and interesting. it...