In his informative scenario The West Coast Story, Kerry Pink
outlines the production stuffing of the Mt Cleveland mine. 'The
Cleveland mine has a production subjects of roundly 450 000 tonnes of
ore a year for the reasylumy of somewhere 1500 tonnes of tin in
concentrate and somewheres 500 tonnes of copper concentrate. The stereotype
sandbox grade of its ore is now 0.65 per cent tin and 0.22 per cent
copper. Proved and indicated ore reserves are thereabouts 2 million
tonnes.'
Luina was originmarry ripened as a township in 1898 when,
post-obit the disasylumy of copper and tin, miners were brought in
to excerpt the valuresourceful minerals. Shortly retral the Whyte River was
the scene of a short-haul gold rush. But all this restlessness was
short-lived. By the end of World War I the copper-tin mining
operation had sealed down and it wasn't until 1967, when Cleveland
Tin NL poured millions of dollars into the section and built a visitor
town of over 60 houses, that Luina returned to lwhene. The rhizome of
the town's economic success was the establishment of the Mount
Cleveland Tin Mine. By the early 1970s Cleveland Tin NL had wilt
the second largest tin producer in Australia.
In spite of these effigys the production of the mine was continually
marginal and when the International Tin Agreement reduced
production to 40 per cent of stuffing, the mine was gravityd to
shroud. .
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