Qualla: Sandstone Gold Mine https://qualla.com/sandstone-gold-mine en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Sandstone Gold Mine https://qualla.com/sandstone-gold-mine Sandstone Gold Mine: Introduction https://qualla.com/sandstone-gold-mine/ In 1906 the town of Sandstone held eight thousand people. Thirteen years later it held about two hundred. The gold did not run out so much as the world moved on - the First World War called the young men away, the easy reef petered out, and the desert began reclaiming what the rush had built. Yet the ore beneath the spinifex never stopped being worth digging for. Six kilometres southeast of the surviving township, the Sandstone Gold Mine is the latest chapter in a story that keeps restarting, a pit and a processing plant that have outlived the boom that named them and the dozen companies that have owned them since.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/h/b/sandstone-gold-mine-wp/qehb-sandstone-gold-mine-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sandstone Gold Mine: The Reef That Built a Town https://qualla.com/sandstone-gold-mine/ It started with a New Year's Day strike. A prospector found gold about twenty kilometres south of present-day Sandstone in 1894, but the discovery that mattered came in 1903, when gold turned up within a few hundred metres of the future town centre. Word travelled fast across the...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/h/b/sandstone-gold-mine-wp/qehb-sandstone-gold-mine-a-mine-reborn.mp3 0:06 3 full Sandstone Gold Mine: Passed From Hand to Hand https://qualla.com/sandstone-gold-mine/ Few mines have changed owners as often as Sandstone. Troy held it until December 2012, when Southern Cross Gold bought it - mainly hoping to dismantle the processing plant and haul it a hundred kilometres south to another project. Southern Cross merged into Black Oak Minerals, wh...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/h/b/sandstone-gold-mine-wp/qehb-sandstone-gold-mine-passed-from-hand-to-hand.mp3 0:06 4 full Sandstone Gold Mine: Care and Maintenance https://qualla.com/sandstone-gold-mine/ "Care and maintenance" is mining's phrase for sleep. A mine in that state is neither dead nor working - pumps run, fences hold, paperwork stays current, and everyone waits for the gold price to make the next dig pay. Sandstone has slept since 2010, its pit walls weathering under ...

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