Irvinebank
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Dam and ore treatment works, Irvinebank
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Vulcan tin mine, near Irvinebank
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Irvinebank
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Irvinebank Model Band
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Irvinebank, a rural village and former mining and tin-smelting town, is 80 km south-west of Cairns.
In 1880 the Great Northern tin discovery was made at Herberton, 25 km east of Irvinebank. Two years later three prospectors, James Gibb, Andrew Thompson and James McDonald, found promising tin lodes in the catchment of the Gibbs and McDonald Creeks, in the vicinity of the future Irvinebank. The Glen Smelting Company in Herberton, managed by John Moffat, acquired several of the tin shows in Gibbs Creek in 1883.
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K.H. Kennedy, ed, Readings in North Queensland mining history, vol 1, Townsville, History Department, James Cook University, 1980
Ruth S. Kerr, John Moffat's empire, St Lucia, J.D. & R.S. Kerr, 1979
Ruth S. Kerr, John Moffat of Irvinebank, St Lucia, J.D. & R.S. Kerr, 2000
Ray Langford, Two white swans, Atherton, Ray Langford, 2002
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