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Charles Livingston alias Lucas or Thomson

1815-1879
Born: Belfast, Antrim, , Ireland
Died: Cobar, , New South Wales, Australia,

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  • Story: History Of Cobar, NSW - The Death Place Of Charles Lucas

    <span><div>The discovery of Copper Lode at Cobar in 1870 is linked with natural forces of drought and flood which dominate the western plains.In 1869 Charles Campbell a 19yr Danish Bricklayer,Thomas Hartman a 19yr old Danish Seaman and George Gibb a 16yr old Scottsman were working in the Bourke district. Widespread flooding in 1870 forced the team to head south.They set off via Louth to Wittagoona, following the route known to local aborigines that linked the permanent watering holes in the vast plain.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Guided by two aborigines&nbsp; they camped overnight at Kuparr waterhole about 100 miles south of Bourke.Local aborgines had obtained clay from the waterhole,which they painted themselves.Charles Campbell and his party found blue/green streaks in the side of the waterhole and were impressed to take samples of the minerals.After leaving the waterhole the party met up with Kruge Family at Gilgunnia and displayed the samples to Mrs Sidwell Kruge, who was a Cornish woman who had worked as a bal-gal, sorting minerals in mining areas immediately indentified the samples as copper. The first mining selection was applied for by Campbell, Hartman, Gibb and a Bourke business man Joseph Becker, on 6th October 1870.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The first ore samples were transported to the Darling River port of Louth by bullock team,then riverboat Princess Royal to Adelaide.The Great Copper Mining Company was registered on 10th January 1876.The real development of the Cobar Mining industry had now commenced.120 miners were employed.In 1881 the company&#39;s workforce had increased to 650, including 170 underground miners, 125 workers in the smelters, 150 woodcutters/carters and 205 ore dressers.the workforce continued to expand until it numbered 900 men in 1884.In July 1884 six locomotives were transporting the wood to the mines, 62,000 tonnes annually.Four round trips a day,100 miles and brought in 10-15 tonnes of wood each trip.Box,Yarran,Myall and Ironbark were the main species cut.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>(Taken from cobarnsw.com website) </div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Did Charles Lucas go to Cobar to work in the new found copper industry? <br></div></span>

 
 
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