Deputy Premier of South Australia, Susan Close MP visited Burra & Moonta to celebrate the sites being added to Australia’s UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. Picture: facebook.com/coppercoastcouncil

South Australia’s Deputy Premier Susan Close MP visited the Cornish copper mines Burra and Moonta recently to celebrate the sites being added to Australia’s UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. 

Members of the bid team, VIPs, and community members enjoyed Cornish pasties, a train ride to the Moonta site, and speeches from renowned historian Barry Gamble, Mayor Talbot, and the Deputy Premier. 

Moonta Area School Year 5 class attended in heritage dress and played old-time games, such as marbles, skipping, coits, croquet, and limbo, at Hughes Engine House. 

The mine sites date back to the 1840s. 

Pictures: Moonta Area School year 5 class attended in heritage dress and played old time games such as marbles, skipping, coits, croquet and Limbo at Hughes Engine House, Moonta. Credit: facebook.com/@moontaheritage