Abandoned, Derelict & Orphan Mines (continued)
Some well-known Abandoned Mine Sites
Find the following well–known (and not so well-known) abandoned, derelict or orphan mine sites in Australia using The Australian National Mines Atlas or Google Earth™.	Click on the Google Earth Placemark™ to fly to an abandoned mine. You can install Google Earth from here. Links will lead to Wikipedia entries.
Australia Queensland Horn Island gold mine Mt Morgan gold mine Agricola gold mine New South Wales Captains Flat copper lead zinc mine Conrad or Howell tin silver mine Ottery tin arsenic mine Yerranderie silver mine Woodsreef asbestos mine South Australia Burra copper mine Moonta copper mine Nairne pyrite mine Northern Territory Rum Jungle uranium mine Tasmania Savage River iron mine Mt Lyell copper gold mine, Queenstown King Island Scheelite (tungsten) mine More Google Earth Placemarks™ for active mines here.	Abandoned mines elsewhere in the world Canada Britannia copper mine United States of America Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana, copper mine Summitville gold mine Iron Mountain mine Great Britain Wheal Jane tin mine Rehabilitation at many sites today must make some difficult decisions in which environmental risks are matched against preservation of significant heritage values of old and sometimes unsafe mine structures, such as head frames and processing plants; indeed many old mines have become valuable tourist attractions once heritage conservation has been carried out, an example is Sovereign Hill in Victoria (Australia). The Institution of Engineers Australia produced ‘Engineering Heritage and Conservation Guidelines’, that provide guidance on the heritage value and conservation of old industrial and mine sites and works and incorporates an Australian ‘Charter’ affiliated with the International Council on Monuments and Sites, sometimes called the “Burra Charter” incorporated as an Appendix A: “The Australian ICOMOS Charter for the Conservation of Places of Cultural Significance”. The Guidelines (and thus the Charter) can be visited here and can be downloaded here.
Open pit, Butte, USA in 1994 (Photo: G. McIlveen, CMLR).	Anaconda Copper, USA, 1993 (Photo: G. McIlveen, CMLR).
Hebburn No 2 colliery, Cessnock, NSW, Australia, in the 1970s. The chitter or washery reject can be seen burning after igniting spontaneously (Photo: G. McIlveen, CMLR).	The Sunny Corner copper mine, near Bathurst, NSW, Australia, in the 1970s (Photo: G. McIlveen, CMLR).
Abandoned, Derelict & Orphan Mines
Some useful resources and links