Burra and District: A Pictorial Memoir

pp. 217 A pristine unmarked copy, Pictorial laminated boards, b&w photographs. #0416 Burra is a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia. It lies east of the Clare Valley in the Bald Hills range, part of the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, and on Burra Creek. The town began as a single company mining township that, by 1851, was a set of townships (company, private and government-owned) collectively known as The Burra”.The Burra mines supplied 89% of South Australia’s and 5% of the world’s copper for 15 years