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| Black Jack Queensland | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 20°10′08″S146°09′08″E / 20.1688°S 146.1522°ECoordinates: 20°10′08″S146°09′08″E / 20.1688°S 146.1522°E | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Charters Towers Region | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Traeger | ||||||||||||
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Black Jack is a locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.[1] It was formerly a mining town which is now abandoned.
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Geography[edit]
Black Jack is a triangular-shaped locality. The Great Northern railway line forms the northern boundary of Black Jack. There are two railway stations within the locality, Wellington Yards railway station in the far north-east corner (on the outskirts of the suburban area of Charters Towers) and Southern Cross railway station on its north-west border.[2]
The Flinders Highway passes through the northern part of the locality, while the Diamantina Road forms its eastern boundary.[2]
Black Jack is approximately 350 metres above sea level rising to peaks in its south-west of 450 metres.[2]
History[edit]
The Black Jack P. C. mine produced large quantities of gold in 1886 and 1887 (known as the Black Jack Boom) but then produced very little in subsequent years.[3]
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Black Jack Provisional School opened on 21 March 1887. It became Black Jack State School on 6 July 1891. It closed in 1949.[4]
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References[edit]
- ^'Black Jack - locality in Charters Towers Region (entry 44535)'. Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^ abc'Queensland Globe'. State of Queensland. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^Marsland, L. W (1892), The Charters Towers gold mines : a descriptive and historical account of the town and gold field of Charters Towers, Queensland : with full and detailed particulars of the more important mines, and of all mining companies carrying on operations on the field : being a handbook of Charters Towers and a guide to mining investors, Waterlow Bros. & Layton, retrieved 24 July 2017
- ^Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN978-1-921171-26-0
Further reading[edit]
- Morton, C. C; Queensland. Dept. of Mines (1936), The Black Jack Gold Mine, Charters Towers, Dept. of Mines, retrieved 24 July 2017
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External links[edit]
Media related to Black Jack, Queensland at Wikimedia Commons