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Ah dang...I was looking at Mount Clarke, but it was wrong side of the border...was on the right track.
The Preaching Geologist
 
Sorry lads, been off sulking cause i never get these questions right.

The duck confiscated all my beer until i post a question, so here goes.

I am now an Australian National Park.

In the 1800's the discovery of copper and tin, led to the establishment of several small scale mining operations in my area before pastoral occupation began in the 1870s which included both logging and grazing.

In 1949, a local prospector discovered Uranium outside my eastern boundary.
 
My name and discoverer can be termed as cold
Although I am a place of heat that holds precious gold.
My inhabitants came then left. Some wealthy, most bereft.
Look at me today, and there is nothing left.
 
No it does not. LOL
Just a few rotting boards and a few fruit tree's beside the road now.

Horse said:
The thing that threw me off Clarkesville is it still has its Pub
 
Tathradj said:
No it does not. LOL
Just a few rotting boards and a few fruit tree's beside the road now.

Horse said:
The thing that threw me off Clarkesville is it still has its Pub

Sorry Tathradj , I have never been there, just misled from a webpage typo it seems.

They Stated the Horse and Coaches Inn was in Clarkeville...but it is actually Clarkefield. grrr
http://www.weekendnotes.com/victorias-most-haunted-pubs/

Sorry for the misunderstanding
 
Thanks Horse

I am an old Victorian gold mining town with a population of less than 300. Once the gold ran out I was moved from my location (which was a natural feature from which I am named) to a new one.
 
Sorry fellas both incorrect.
In my original location my first post office was opened in 1859 and my first primary school in 1861.
Both are no longer there as I was moved to my current location late in the 19th century.
 
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