Maranboy

Maranboy was a tin mine near Barunga, about 70 kilometres east of Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia.

[1] Aboriginal people such as the Jawoyn have lived in the area surrounding Maranboy for thousands of years.

At the time of European settlement in 1869 at Palmerston, now Darwin, many of the country's other mineral resources had already been exploited.

[2] Alluvial tin was found in the area by Tim O'Shea in 1910, a stockman from Pine Creek, but he never registered a claim.

[9] Many of the Aboriginal people who serviced the mine returned to Beswick Creek (later Barunga).