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Extract from the Cobar Travel Guides:
Since copper was discovered here in 1869,
COBAR
, just under 160km south of Bourke and the first real stop on the Barrier Highway between Nyngan and Broken Hill, has experienced three mining booms. Today, it's home to the vast
CSA Mine
, said to be the most highly mechanized in Australia, extracting about 850,000 tonnes of copper every year. Earlier booms resulted in a number of impressive public buildings, among them the 1882
courthouse
and the police station, as well as the
Great Western Hotel
on Marshall Street, whose iron-lace verandahs are said to be the longest in the state....
read the whole Cobar Travel Guides...
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