Kanowna (Western Australia)

Kanowna is a ghost town in the region of Goldfields - Esperance, Western Australia, Australia, located about 615 kilometers east of Perth and 20 kilometers northeast of Kalgoorlie - Boulder. It is a city which originated in an Australian gold rush.

Name

The area was first called White Feather 1893; and, as a gold there was a settlement, which was declared a city in 1894 Kanowna. Probably not the name originates from the Aborigines, because there is a cattle station at Cooper Creek in South Australia with this name and in different sources is reported that the first prospectors came from there. Kanowna could also originate from " kana " or " gana ", which means in the language of the aborigines either place where you sleep poorly or can not sleep. The area has a rocky surface that makes it an unsuitable storage space.

History

After the discovery of gold in 1893, the city was founded in the same year, which was inhabited in 1894 by about 2500 and 1899 of 12,500 people.

The city was founded in 1895 relocated from the area White Feather, as there are a manufactory for the production of cement has been established.

As the gold that was found in an alluvial soil, had been excavated, the gold mining followed by underground, but the gold veins are not superficial, but in great depth. When the discovery of gold fell, became depopulated the city and the railway station was closed in the time of the Great Depression. 1953, the site was abandoned. Today, the city only the site of the railway station recognizable and two cemeteries and mines have been preserved. The Kalgoorlie Historical Society has marked the places on which important buildings were located.

The price of gold, which rose in the 1970s, called a renewed search for gold produced and as geologists met there by drilling at major gold deposits, the mining was recorded in mining in 1984 again, since 2002 in the Kanowna -Belle Gold Mine n three mines of Barrick Gold is operated at about 300 workers in underground mines.