Historical Timeline

• 1820s to 1840s
  • Aboriginal Prehistory
  • Pastoral Settlement, 1820s to 1850s
• 1850s
  • The Property Investors and Mining Speculators
  • Early attempts at copper mining at Cadia 1850s -1861
  • Scottish Australian Mining Company & its management
  • Cadia, 1859-1861 – John Penrose Christoe, Welsh smelterman
    • An Inventory of Living and Working conditions, 1861.
• 1860s
  • Cadia, 1862-1864 – Josiah Holman, Cornish Mine Captain
  • Copper Mining at Cadia – the Cadiangullong Consolidated Copper Mining Company, 1864-1868
    • The Orange Guardian, 1 March 1865
    • Random Notes by A Wandering Reporter, 16 Sept 1865
    • Bailliere’s New South Wales Gazetteer 1866
    • Sale Notice, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 May 1868
    • Josiah Holman’s Report, 11 June 1868
  • Cornish mining techniques used at Cadia
• 1870s to 1890s
  • Hopes raised and dashed 1870s – 1890s
    • Australian Town and Country Journal, 7 May 1870
• 1900s – 1940s
  • False start in iron ore 1899-1907
  • Gold and Copper mining ventures 1904-1908
    • Cadia Copper Mine, 1908, plans and sections
  • Cadia Copper Mining & Smelting Company Ltd 1908-1917
    • Annual Report of the Department of Mines, 1908
  • Iron Ore Quarrying G&C Hoskins 1919-1928
  • Cadia, the last hurrah, 1930s and 1940s