Mount Boppy Gold Mine

In 1900, the Mount Boppy Gold-Mining Company was formed, in London, to exploit the newly-proven, large, rich deposit.

[14][15] The Superintendent was the de facto mayor of the mining village, essentially a company town, which would not have local government until 1958.

[16] For its time, the Mount Boppy Gold Mine was a sophisticated and well run operation, with its own assaying laboratory, and was an early adopter of the cyanide process.

[21][22][23] From 1914, the mine began using groundwater, from the abandoned North Mount Boppy shaft, in its boilers.

Although not unusually so for the time, working conditions at the mine were difficult[26]—by modern standards, physically demanding and unsafe—and there were many accidents and fatalities.

The mining company provided Canbelego with a small hospital, capable of basic care, but more serious injuries needed to be transferred to Cobar, typically by train.

[34] By the end of 1912, shareholders had received a return of 356% on their capital investment,[35] rising to 500% over the entire 21 years of operation.

[33] After reef mining ceased on 6 September 1921, the old company reprocessed tailings, until finally closing the site and selling off its equipment and buildings in 1923.

Later mining operations included reprocessing of tailings sand that had been used to back fill the old underground workings.

[33][42] In recent years, the mine was reopened as an open-cut operation,[33] but later placed under care and maintenance.

[50][51] In May 2024, Manuka Resources announced that it had raised $8 million in capital to commence production at the Mount Boppy mine.