| 词条 | Day Dawn, Western Australia |
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| type = town | name = Day Dawn | state = wa | image = DayDawn1904.jpg | caption = Day Dawn in 1904. | image_alt = | relief = | coordinates = {{coord|27|28|00|S|117|52|00|E|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | map_alt = | pop = 0 | pop_year = abandoned | pop_footnotes = {{citation needed|date=January 2014}} | poprank = | density = | density_footnotes = | established = 1894 | established_footnotes = | abolished = | gazetted = | postcode = | elevation = | elevation_footnotes = | area = | area_footnotes = | timezone = | utc = | timezone-dst = | utc-dst = | dist1 = | dir1 = | location1 = Perth | dist2 = 6.6 | dir2 = | location2 = Cue | lga = Shire of Cue | seat = | region = | county = | division = | stategov = North West | fedgov = Durack | visitation_num = | visitation_year = | visitation_footnotes = | managing_authorities = | url = | maxtemp = | maxtemp_footnotes = | mintemp = | mintemp_footnotes = | rainfall = | rainfall_footnotes = | near-n = | near-ne = | near-e = | near-se = | near-s = | near-sw = | near-w = | near-nw = | near = | footnotes = }}Day Dawn was a significant mining town and mine in the Mid West/upper Murchison region of Western Australia in the late nineteenth century.[1] Located a short distance south-west of Cue, rich gold deposits were discovered there in 1891 by Ned Heffernan, who pegged out what became known as the 'Day Dawn Reef'.[2] HistoryOriginally the settlement was informally called Four Mile, that being its distance from the town of Cue. It was gazetted as the town of Bundawadra on 2 March 1894,[3] renamed Day Dawn on 25 May 1894 and proclaimed a municipality on 26 May 1895.[4] The area has a semi-arid climate with hot summers and mild to cool winters, but is prone to the occasional inundation, in 1925 several buildings in the town collapsed following heavy rain and flood waters. The town received {{convert|1.56|in|mm|0}} of rain over the course of two days.[5] The Northern Railway arrived at Cue from Mullewa, a distance of {{convert|317|km}}, in 1894. In 1895 the Day Dawn Associated Gold mine, Kinsella, Trenton and the Day Dawn South mine were all operating ten head stamp mills close to the town for processing ore.[6] An important strike was staged there for nine weeks in 1899 when local miners protested against the use of Italian immigrant contract workers and Great Fingall's attempt to reduce miners' wages by five shillings per week.[3][7][8] Great Fingall Consolidated Gold Mining Company operated the mine from 1898 until 1918, when it was closed. By October 1921, shorings at the abandoned mine, which had been known as the 'Great Fingall mine', had collapsed and the town had disappeared altogether by the 1930s. All of the town's buildings are now in ruins with the exception of the Great Fingall Mine Office, which is on state and federal heritage registers. Various mining companies have operated the mine from the early 1990s using the open cut method and by reprocessing the tailings from past activities at the Big Bell gold processing plant. The last owners, Harmony Mining, have recently halted production and have sold the mine to Monarch Gold along with the Big Bell Mine and the Hill 50 Gold Mine at Mount Magnet. Monarch however was never able to pay off the mine and went into administration, returning Hill 50 to Harmony. References{{Commons category|Day Dawn, Western Australia}}1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.heritagewa.org.au/places/fingall/ |title=Great Fingall Mine Office |work=The National Trust of Australia (WA) |accessdate=2007-08-22 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070716045903/http://www.heritagewa.org.au/places/fingall/ |archivedate=2007-07-16 |deadurl=yes |df= }} 2. ^[https://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/History+of+country+town+names+-+d History of country town names – D] Landgate website, accessed: 25 January 2010 3. ^1 {{Kimberly 1897}} p. 320 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://register.heritage.wa.gov.au/PDF_Files/G%20-%20A-D/Great%20Fingall%20MineOff(I-AD).PDF |work=Heritage Council of Western Australia |title=Great Fingall Mine Office |accessdate=2007-08-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070831103417/http://register.heritage.wa.gov.au/PDF_Files/G%20-%20A-D/Great%20Fingall%20MineOff%28I-AD%29.PDF |archivedate=2007-08-31 |df= }} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67092317 |title=Heavy Rain on the Murchison. |newspaper=Geraldton Guardian |location=Western Australia |date=5 March 1925 |accessdate=26 July 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33118492|title=Batteries at the Murchison|newspaper=Western Mail|location=Perth|date=4 October 1895|accessdate=22 March 2013|page=3|publisher=National Library of Australia}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.qfest.com/MoreTalesoftheGoldenAge.htm |title=More tales of the Golden Age: Danger Down Below |author=Barry Strickland |date=October 2005 |accessdate=2007-08-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820124648/http://qfest.com/MoreTalesoftheGoldenAge.htm |archivedate=August 20, 2006 }} 8. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3233757 |title=THE MINERS' STRIKE AT DAY DAWN. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=28 August 1899 |accessdate=14 April 2011 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Further reading
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