Place Names Register Extract

Lucy Mine

Extract date: 03/12/2025

Name	Lucy Mine
Type Designation	Mine
Place Id	14650
Place Type	Feature
Status	Historical
Date Registered
Location (Datum GDA94)
	Latitude: -12° 51' S (Decimal degrees -12.85)
	Longitude: 130° 49' E (Decimal degrees 130.8167)
Locality / Suburb
	Charlotte
Local Government Area

History/Origin	Named after Lucy McGinness (Alngindabu) (1874-1961) who with her husband Stephen McGinness took up a tin mining lease over the area where Lucy found the ore, in 1906. The family continued working the lease at various times until the 1960s. Ref: Australian Dictionary of Biography - Onliner edition - Alngindabu

Register & Gazettal information

Date	Gazettal	Comment
	(None Found)

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