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    E 147°32.441

In fact this is not the original cemetery for the area; it was developed for the growing mining town as distinct from the Copperfield area. The subsequent Blair Athol township has now been dug up, and all that can be seen nowadays are rolling dumps of overburden. At the time of the establishing of this open cut mine the cemetery was all that remained to remind us there was once a thriving township there; there were a few additional graves to the north and east of the main pit that probably dated from the time the area was being established, and possibly other unmarked graves would have since gone through a gigantic earthmoving bucket...

The entire area is of interest. Clermont was originally a town based on gold mining, and it and the adjacent smelter town of Copperfield were proclaimed in 1864. Copperfield smelted ore from the hills west of Clermont, while the gold was mined nearer to the town of Clermont and eastwards to the town of Miclere, now long gone (along with its cemetery).

Gold is still mined in a line north of Clermont along what is now the Charters Towers road. Down that road, but on a private property, we are informed, is the old cemetery of 'Black Ridge'.

The data shoen below is now being transferred to an on-line database called MOP ('Myra's Other Place') and as each item is transferred a green tick will appear beside it.