Mungana

Mungana, a former mining town (silver/lead, copper and limestone), is 150 km west of Cairns and 15 km west of Chillagoe. The town was one-two kilometres north of the productive Girofla and Lady Jane mines, each near the Mungana smelters.

Further Reading: 

K.H. Kennedy, The Mungana affair: state mining and political corruption in the 1920s, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1978

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