Mount Allen, New South Wales

Mount Allen is a ghost town in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia.

The former gold mining village was located approximately 4 km west of Kidman Way, between Mount Hope and Gilgunnia on the route to Cobar.

[2] The area which later became the village of Mount Allen lies on the traditional lands of Wangaaypuwan dialect speakers (also known as Wangaibon) of Ngiyampaa people.

[3] After settlers took over the district, it lay across the boundary of Mount Allen and the Coree parishes, within Blaxland County.

By August 1891, sampling had produced satisfactory results, the mine had been sold to a syndicate of investors, and machinery was in the process of being erected.

[13] Around February 1898, poor grades led to the end of mining and the decision to erect a cyanide plant to reprocess tailings.

[34] The village effectively ceased to exist officially in 1939, when most of its land area was reallocated to the neighbouring pastoral holding, from which it had been excised originally.

[35] There is now nothing left of the settlement except its cemetery, which lies slightly to the north-west of the former village's site,[36][2][37] and the remnants of the gold mine.