Between Darwin and Katherine where we were staying for the night, is the small mining town of Pine Creek - a former gold mining town and now mineral mines and energy production. It was a very frontier type of town founded in the 1870s and it is the only town remaining from the gold rush days of the 1870’s. Before any European settlement the Pine Creek area was home to the Wagaman, Asgicondi, Arigoola and Jawoyn peoples. These Aborigine people used the local rock as a source of tools. They have found the largest known complex of Aboriginal quarries in the Northern Territory was established in ...
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