Australian History

[user 4386]

I thought deserts, but the Sahara is many times larger. Then lakes, but the Caspian Sea is the largest lake on Earth. Then basins of internal drainage (Lake Eyre), but the Caspian Basin (and probably some others) are larger. Is this the TYPE of feature (a physical feature)?

 

[Manpa]

Great Barrier Reef?

 

[user 4386]

I thought that until I saw the bit about 4 states

 

[Ward69]

In some places Im 3000 meters deep

 

[user 4386]

Have to be the Great Artesian Basin (I've never been completely convinced that it is the world's largest Artesian Basin, but Wikipedia says so).

 

[Ward69]

I thought deserts, but the Sahara is many times larger. Then lakes, but the Caspian Sea is the largest lake on Earth. Then basins of internal drainage (Lake Eyre), but the Caspian Basin (and probably some others) are larger. Is this the TYPE of feature (a physical feature)?

Goldierocks. Your thinking is very close
A lot of farms tap into it

 

[Ward69]

Have to be the Great Artesian Basin (I've never been completely convinced that it is the world's largest Artesian Basin, but Wikipedia says so).

Ok. Its was correct answer that I was looking for. All yours

 

[user 4386]

Thanks. I need a minute. My understanding is that the Western Siberian Basin is 50% larger, but it is a bit like Ayers Rock being the largest of its kind (it probably is in circumference but not in other parameters - some are twice as high and just as steep or steeper).

 

[user 4386]

I was a metal mine in the suburb of what is now a major Australian state capital city

 

[LONEWOLF]

Hmmm I have seen that picture before... So at a guess, one of the Brookfield Mines in Brisbane?

LW...

 

[user 4386]

Nope. It produced 1.6 tonnes of gold.

 

[user 4386]

It is in a suburb named after a mineral that was never found in that suburb (or anywhere within hundreds of km of it).

 

[Archimedes]

Emerald in QLD?

 

[StoneTheCrows]

diamond creek

 

[Ward69]

Im narrowing it down abit. Cant be Perth or Brisbane. There was no mining in Canberra.

A suburb of a capital city that was mining metal and produce gold. Newcastle isnt a suburb, Illawarra isnt a suburb. Looking at the picture again and again. Its near a body of water.

 

[Rockhunter62]

Emerald the suburb of Melbourne, Victoria has a history of gold diggings.

Cheers

Doug

 

[user 4386]

You have got it STC - over to you.

The gold reef was first discovered there in 1862 or 1863, 12 years after most goldrushes in the state, despite being only 30 km as the crow flies from Melbourne GPO. It started as the Union mine and became the Diamond Creek mine. It was hit by bushfires a few times (last 1969). The mine was shut after a mine fire in 1915. It briefly opened again in the early 1950s but no gold was produced before finally closing. In 2010 a nearby alluvial gold mine shaft opened in the middle of the main bitumen road through the town, and in 2013 a man had to be rescued from the incline shaft.

 

[user 4386]

Im narrowing it down abit. Cant be Perth or Brisbane. There was no mining in Canberra.

A suburb of a capital city that was mining metal and produce gold. Newcastle isnt a suburb, Illawarra isnt a suburb. Looking at the picture again and again. Its near a body of water.

That body of water is the mine dam - it is actually on a hill.

 

[Nanjim]

Would it be a suburb of Brisbane called Kingston there was a mine there in the dim dark days of the past I think a shopping centre was build on the site in the 70s

 

[user 4386]

STC got it already - Diamond Creek in Victoria. I remember Kingston - the open pit was convenient for landfill, they dumped PBCs in it, then they built on it....