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Peak Hill is the name of a goldfield,〔Clarke, E. de C.(1913) ''Geological report on Mikhaburra (Holden's Find), Peak Hill goldfield. Bulletin (Geological Survey of Western Australia), No. 59, 1914, Report 37''〕 locality and the site of a gold mining〔Heydon, P. R. (1991) ''Gold at Peak Hill'' Carlisle, W.A : Hesperian Press, ISBN 0-85905-153-6〕 ghost town in the Murchison Region of Western Australia. The gold mine covers 2,162 hectares and consists of four open-cut mines, titled Main, Jubilee, Fiveways and Harmony. In the adjacent region to the locality there are considerable non auriferous mineral deposits.〔Montgomery, A. (1920) ''Report on the manganese deposits at Horseshoe Range, Peak Hill Goldfield ''Perth, W.A. Dept. of Mines, 1920 (Perth (): Fred. Wm. Simpson, Government Printer〕 Adjacent fields included the Horseshoe field.〔Stewart, Duke (1897) ''The Peak Hill Goldfield''. Stewart (cycling through the district compiling a goldfields directory) reports on gold specimens from the Horseshoe and Peak Hill districts. West Australian, 23 November 1897, p.6〕 Early exploration at the site occurred in the 1890s,〔(1970) The biography of William John Wilson : discoverer of the Peak Hill Goldfields, Western Australia; and, Early history of Peak Hill / compiled by ... Freda and ... Arnold Armstrong and ... Laurence Wilson.Battye Library typescript〕〔Reed, Frank. (1897) ''The Peak Hill Goldfields''. West Australian, 17 April 1897, p.10〕 when gold was discovered by William John Wilson in 1892. The townsite was gazetted in 1897,〔 and the field has had varied fortunes even in early years.〔''Peak Hill''. Article in a series titled: Is the Murchison a failure? Murchison times and Day Dawn gazette, 18 Feb. 1899, p.2f-g〕〔Armstrong, Freda. (1940s) ''Early Murchison days : the discovery of Peak Hill : some rich returns'' Battye Library document - PR5868 originally in Geraldton Guardian.〕 Before 1913, the mine produced some 270,000 ounces of gold.〔 Peak Hill was also included as a location in a regional newspaper network of more outlying mining communities in the 1920s and 1930s.〔'' The manganese record, Peak Hill, Nullagine and Marble Bar Gazette''. Meekatharra () : Telegraph Printing and Publishing Company Ltd., 1928-1941. 22 Sept. 1928-11 July 1941. it was preceded by ''The Murchison Times'' and ''Day Dawn Gazette''. Cue () : Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette, 1894-1925. Distribution area: Cue; Day Dawn; Murchison; Peak Hill Goldfields.〕 The population of the town was 190 (180 males and 10 females) in 1898. A Walker was the proprietor of the Peak Hill General Store up until 1954, when he retired to his Daughter's Farm (Nee Campbell) McCourt Farm, Peppermint Grove Beach, South of Capel. Mr Walker was the last full-time resident of Peak Hill. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peak Hill, Western Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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