Cangai Copper Mine

[2] The mine plant included a smelter and a narrow gauge locomotive-hauled tramway for transporting the firewood needed to fuel it.

[1] The company was set up by a group of Grafton businessmen, who were able to exercise local control over operations, unlike many other Australian mining ventures.

As timbered areas close to the mine were cut out, difficulties in transporting sufficient firewood for the smelters led to the construction of a 4-mile (6.4 kilometre) 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge tramway in 1910/11.

The Australian Metal Company supplied rails and rolling stock imported from Germany, including a locomotive built in Berlin by Orenstein & Koppel.

[3] In 1920, the locomotive and rolling stock was sold for use in Tasmania at the Tasmanian Timber and Tramway Company at Bridport.