Mount Perry

Mount Perry is an old copper mining town, that has reinvented itself as a gold mining town. There is still evidence of the copper smelting of many years past. For some reason the top of the slag heap was poured with blocks to form a paving.

Reading through the stories it is claimed that the slag pavers were done as a lasting memorial. Personally I seriously doubt that. It would have cost considerable effort and time so there must have been a reason of operational importance. Possibly they wanted to stabilise the top of the slag heap or as I already speculated, have a solid base to move the dump carts to the edge.

I suspect there was an operational reason. Perhaps it made a solid pavement to run the dump skips on. Now it is an interesting surface on the top of thousands of tonnes of copper smelting slag.

The nearby lookout offers a reasonable look over the area to the south of Mount Perry. It would help if someone kept the trees below a bit trimmed but vee haf vays to solve that minor problem.Read more