Burra SA: Monster Mine copper township

Where: Australia · Oceania · approx. -33.66, 138.94 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: The Burra Burra 'Monster Mine' supplied 5 percent of world copper 1845-1877, Cornish miners lived in creek-bank dugouts, state heritage area since 1993

What turns up: eyes-only: engine houses, open cut, miners' dugouts in Burra Creek, Redruth gaol, slag and ore scatter in place

Access: Restricted.

State heritage area, mine relics and townscape are protected, access to fenced sites is by the visitor centre's key or pass arrangement, collecting anything including surface copper ore is not permitted

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.