14-619: Williamsford, Tasmania is the location of a former mining community, south of Rosebery, Tasmania and on the western lower reaches of Mount Read . It was formerly reached by the North East Dundas Tramway a line which operated between 1896 and 1929. It was also the location of the Hercules Haulage - a 2-foot gauge haulage line on the western slope of Mount Read, and the later Rosebery - Williamsford Aerial Ropeway . The town had an Australian rules team in
28-573: A subsidiary of China Minmetals and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange . In September 2012, Minmetals Resources Limited changed its registered company name to MMG Limited to align the assets already operating as MMG with the registered company name. In December 2015, MMG became a dual-listed company when a secondary listing was made on the Australian Securities Exchange . It was delisted from
42-692: Is a town on the west coast of Tasmania , Australia . It is at the northern end of the West Coast Range , in the shadow of Mount Black and adjacent to the Pieman River , now Lake Pieman . It lies on the Murchison Highway , 25 kilometres north-east of Zeehan and is part of the Municipality of West Coast Council . At the 2021 census , Rosebery had a population of 752. The population of Rosebery declined by 22% in
56-491: Is to become the new site of a collection of conifers. These conifers have been collected over the last 15 years from a number of Southern Hemisphere countries where they are approaching extinction. The collected species of trees are considered extremely rare living examples of prehistoric conifers and to be "the best collection in the world". 41°50′S 145°39′E / 41.833°S 145.650°E / -41.833; 145.650 Rosebery, Tasmania Rosebery
70-505: The 1960s, the town was connected with Burnie and North West Tasmania via the Emu Bay Railway . Rosebery has a damp oceanic climate ( Cfb ) with mild, damp, unstable summers and cool, very wet winters. Sunshine is low; The city only receives 16.5 clear days annually, and as much as 168.1 cloudy days per annum. February is the "driest" month and September is the wettest, as the westerly wind belt (i.e. roaring forties ) prevails
84-803: The Australian Securities Exchange in December 2019. In February 2022, Resources Minister Guy Barrett granted a new lease to the MMG along an access road where it wants to develop a heavy metals tailings dam in the Tarkine rainforest . The MMG's Rosebery dam requires a third tailing dam in order to continue operating past 2024. The decision was opposed by the Bob Brown Foundation (BBF) led by former Greens leader Bob Brown and protestors. The BBF subsequently challenged
98-552: The Great Depression, the Rosebery Mill was not completed until 1936. The Rosebery Mine has operated continuously since then, with 75 year celebrations held during February, 2011. The mine is currently operated by Minerals and Metals Group (MMG), producing zinc , lead , copper , silver and gold . Previous mine owners included Pasminco and Zinifex . Prior to the construction of the Murchison Highway in
112-569: The Rosebery Football Association until the competition disbanded in 1963. In 1924, Charles Whitham wrote:- Williamsford is the township attached to Mount Read, and is right at the foot of the steepest and longest haulage line we have... 5 miles from Rosbery by road, and 18 miles from Zeehan by tramway, and if you like rugged and wild scenery you will find it a charming place By the late twentieth century there were no longer inhabitants of this community. The townsite
126-882: The Rosebery Prospecting Association (named after Lord Rosebery ), which later became the Rosebery Gold Mining Company. The South Rosebery Mining Company was formed soon after to mine the southern continuation of the orebody. In 1896, the Rosebery Gold Mining Company was reconstructed as the Tasmanian Copper Company, and the South Rosebery Mining Company became the Primrose Mining Company. Rosebery Post Office opened on 1 November 1897. The main mineral found in
140-813: The decision in the Tasmanian Supreme Court in April 2023, but was rejected by chief justice Alan Blow . Another bid by the BBF in the Federal Court to halt work on a tailings dam in the Tarkine, saying that it would cause irreversible damage to the Tasmanian masked owl's habitat, was lost. However, another case in the Federal Court resulted in the BBF's favour. Mark Moshinsky found that
154-611: The hands of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway company in 1916, and the mines were eventually merged with the Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia (EZ) , who had discovered an effective method for the extraction of zinc. In 1926, construction of a processing mill at Rosebery began, and in 1931, an aerial ropeway to transport ore from the Hercules Mine near Williamsford was completed. Due to
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#1732791410126168-535: The orebody was sphalerite, but due to the lack of a technique to successfully extract the zinc from the ore, little could be done to exploit the orebody. One company formed to experiment in the processing of zinc ores was the Tasmanian Metals Extraction Company (TME) who built a large plant next to the track to Williamsford, completed in 1912. The experiment was unsuccessful and the plant closed in 1914. The Rosebery mines passed into
182-465: The region. Minerals and Metals Group MMG Limited is a mid-tier global resources company that mines, explores and develops base metal projects around the world. MMG's largest shareholder is China Minmetals with 68%. MMG was formed in June 2009, following the purchase of the majority of assets of Oz Minerals by China Minmetals . In December 2010, MMG was acquired by Minmetals Resources,
196-405: The years between 1996-2001. Its newer western area on the shore of Lake Pieman is known as Primrose. Like most of the other settlements on the west coast of Tasmania, Rosebery is a mining town. In 1893, prospector Tom McDonald discovered gold in alluvial wash, along with boulders of zinc-lead sulphide in dense rainforest on the slopes of Mount Black. McDonald pegged several claims in the name of
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