Wallaroo & Moonta Mines

I found these photos in a 1914 engineering book and thought they were interesting.  The  Wallaroo & Moonta Mines was located in South Australia.  They mined and smelted copper ore.

The photo above is a general view of the mines complex.  The ore was transported from the mining area to the smelter in the small four-wheel gondola dump cars seen in the foreground of the photo.  More of these cars can be seen at the right under the elevated trestle leading to a dump station for the smelter.  

Above is a Bucyrus steam shovel working in "the old dumps" of the Wallaroo and Moonta Mines. The shovel is loading one of the small dump cars.  I guess there were a lot of these cars as this one is numbered 233.  

The Wallaroo & Moonta Mines is long out of business.  

I am well along on the firehouse project so will post the results soon.