Old mine near Yunta

Thanks Willem, That site It could do with a small sign board. looks very much like the chimney was built by Cornishmen.

Thanks for the reply Willie, looks more like a copper mine.
You got the same place name as Willem. I used to have extensive geology notes on the Flinders but gave them all away after having a good look around the northern Flinders on a geology tour many years ago. Thought that I would never get back there again. Silly me, retired with a 4wd camper now, looks like I will get back again, and again, and.....

Waukaringa is the name of the township & locality, north of Yunta, as Willie says. To the east and north east of the ruins of the town you can spy mining remnants - chimneys etc. It was a ghost town until the 1960's to 70's, but now no one lives there & there are no standing structures that are inhabitable. The north of SA is littered with such places - fascinatin', indeed.

Just as Waukaringa was a goldfield, so Teetulpa was a gold field; Brady made the inaugural claim in 1886. Some 300,000 pounds - money, not weight - of gold was taken in the first year, but soon only a very few prospectors were left. Tattawuppa, or as some sources say, Teetulpa, is the aboriginal name of a prominent hill north of Yunta. This hill has a very distinctive shape, and can easily be recognised from the Barrier Highway. Nowadays Teetulpa is the name of a well known pastoral lease.

Cheers

Forgot to say Teetulpa is about 7 miles north of Yunta - Kiwi Kia mentioned 10 km, - 7 miles / 10 km, what's the diff?

So that's why Teetulpa came straight to mind.

Thanks Rick, now I am a little confused as to which old mine site I was refering to ? The old hotel ruin as mentioned by Willem sounds like the place I wanted and I may very well have my distance from Yunta wrong.

Willem or Rick, do you know if the Waukaringa site has a rather large water pond (tank) covered with corrugated iron at the bottom of the hill ?

my great grand father went to Teetulpa during the gold rush...sad to say ....he didnt strike it rich

Kiwi Kia,
I was at Waukaringa a couple of months ago and yes there is a covered water tank a the lower part of the hill. Has been vandalised a bit and there was a dead roo floating in the water that had tried to get a drink and fallen in. Was smelly then will be ripe by now.
cheers

Thanks Alister,

That confirms that the name of the place I wanted is indeed Waukaringa.

Willie, you may like to have a look at the following web site, it has some brief information about some of the old gold strikes in the southern Flinders;

http://www.treasureenterprises.com/Gold%20Prospecting%20Information/gold_prospecting_locations_South_Australia.htm

Thanks ,

I could not see anything about the N.Flinders , probably because it was mainly reef mining and not to good for detecting .

Previously I have printed out the NSW section and it is quite helpful .

Cheers ,

Willie .

Looks like the links failed. Try these

PIRSA Link


Gold Detecting http://groups.msn.com/golddetecting/visitsthaust.msnw

Goyder Council for land ownership enquiries http://www.goyder.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm

Looks like only one (1) link per entry.

Thanks DIO , I am off to have a look now .
Willie .