ANY OLD MAPS OF CLONCURRY/MT ISA GHOST TOWNS????

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Try a book called "Cloncurry Trails" has maps of old mines, prospecting areas and other local sights. I have an old copy somewhere. You may be able to find a downloadable copy.

Also Cloncurry information center has heaps of maps etc. and were very helpful when I was prospecting in the area.
 
Does this help??

CLONCURRY AREA

Gold first attracted prospectors to the district, but the deposits, though rich in some cases were not extensive and the mineable gold was soon worked out. A partial revival of gold mining took place in the depression years of the 1930's, but since that time the amount of gold produced has been negligible.

The principal centres of gold-mining were Top Camp (alluvial), south of Cloncurry, Soldiers Cap (reef) area, south-east of Cloncurry and Gilded Rose (reef), also south-east of Cloncurry, Bower Bird / Sunday Gully area and Doughboy Creek (alluvial), south-west of Kajabbi.

Gold was also won from the (?) Upper Proterozoic Quamby Conglomerate, near Mount Quamby. This gold is probably of hydrothermal origin, but may be detrital. Alluvial gold has been won from each of the localities referred to above and also from an area 14.4km west-south-west of Cloncurry.

The prospects of finding payable gold deposits are not as favourable as for base metals. However, areas both south and east of Cloncurry are considered most favourable for further gold prospecting.

The total recorded production of gold from the Cloncurry Mineral Field to the end of 1954 is 102,043 ounces. Of this amount over 60,000 ounces was obtained from the ores of the main copper mines outside the Cloncurry Geological Sheet area. It includes 3,277 ounces of gold obtained from copper ores (average grade of recovery 0.48 dwt/ton). In the period 1931-1942 whilst approximately 3,061 ounces of gold were obtained from 3,021 tons of gold ore, other than copper-gold ore; this represents 90% of the total production from such ore for the whole of the field.

The discovery of the unusual Silver Phantom deposit near Kuridala in 1953 shows that it is possible for new deposits to be found by careful prospecting even in areas which were thought to have been thoroughly examined. Parcels of high-grade ore consisting of native silver and cerargyrite have been obtained from the deposit.

The total recorded production of gold is less than 57kg, practically all of it as a by-product from the production of copper from the main mines. The figures for individual mines are included in the Table. Jensen has recorded gold from the Lochness area, and Rayner from Silver Ridge 64km north of Mount Cuthbert. It does not appear to be present in economic quantities or grade at either place. Colours have been obtained from a number of places within the area of outcropping Precambrian, from both crystalline and sedimentary rocks.

May Downs

Reef gold has been worked in one area only: the May Downs deposits, near Mine Creek, north-west of Mount Isa. The total production from 242 tons was 1,003 oz.

Duchess Area

Gold has come almost entirely from copper-gold ore-bodies in this area. The few gold workings have only yielded a few tens of ounces of gold. No gold production, apart from that from the Trekelano copper mine, has been recorded for over twenty years.

Urandangi Area

A minor gold rush to the headwaters of Jayah Creek occurred when gold was reported 6 miles east of Jayah Bore, but no production appears to have been recorded.
 

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