Charters Towers where it is obvious by the elegance & grandeur of the magnificant civic buildings, the historic hotels and quaint cottages that you have arrived
in the gold rush era.The Royal Arcade built in 1888 became the Charters Towers Stock Exchange in 1890 and was connected to the world via telegraph with three calls a day, six days a week. You can listen to the "Calling of the Cards", a ghostly reminder of the golden days when just a touch of greed echoed the walls. 80 km east of Charters Towers is a mining town of Ravenswood. You can step back in time and explore unique aspects of the heritage listed gold mining town which in its hayday boasted 48 hotels and shanties to serve & quench the thirst of the miners. Two hotels remain today as examples of the prosperity of the towns wealthy beginnings. A visit to the open cut gold mine lookout to view the pit where giant trucks and machinery still work although the mine will be winding down over the next couple of years. The White Blow was once buried beneath the sea 3 hundred million years ago. Five kms of rock covered this point where silcon-rich solutions at 300-400c rose along fault lines from deeper areas of molton rock accumulated & deposited the mineral quartz. The White Blow is unusual because of its size & shape. Quartz deposits commonly occur as elongated veins reflecting the fault lines in which they formed. It may have been formed at the intersection of 2 large fault lines resulting in its large cyclindrical form.
in the gold rush era.The Royal Arcade built in 1888 became the Charters Towers Stock Exchange in 1890 and was connected to the world via telegraph with three calls a day, six days a week. You can listen to the "Calling of the Cards", a ghostly reminder of the golden days when just a touch of greed echoed the walls. 80 km east of Charters Towers is a mining town of Ravenswood. You can step back in time and explore unique aspects of the heritage listed gold mining town which in its hayday boasted 48 hotels and shanties to serve & quench the thirst of the miners. Two hotels remain today as examples of the prosperity of the towns wealthy beginnings. A visit to the open cut gold mine lookout to view the pit where giant trucks and machinery still work although the mine will be winding down over the next couple of years. The White Blow was once buried beneath the sea 3 hundred million years ago. Five kms of rock covered this point where silcon-rich solutions at 300-400c rose along fault lines from deeper areas of molton rock accumulated & deposited the mineral quartz. The White Blow is unusual because of its size & shape. Quartz deposits commonly occur as elongated veins reflecting the fault lines in which they formed. It may have been formed at the intersection of 2 large fault lines resulting in its large cyclindrical form.
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