page_title: Mount Elliott Mining Complex
section_title: Selwyn Township
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Elliott Mining Complex / Description / Selwyn Township
caption_attribution_description: English: Teacher and friends standing near a dwelling in the mining town, Mount Elliott, Queensland. Left to right: Alan Glew; Eddie Stinson (teacher); Claude Stewart. (Description supplied with photograph.).
context_page_description: Mount Elliott Mining Complex is a heritage-listed copper mine and smelter at Selwyn, Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by William Henry Corbould and built in 1908. It is also known as Mount Elliott Smelter and Selwyn. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 16 September 2011.
context_section_description: The Selwyn Township is located at the northern end of a valley running south to Mount Elliott Smelter which is about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) distant. All buildings have been removed and the evidence of the township now comprises garden plots, cement surfaces and corrugated iron water tanks.
  The site of the Union Hotel remains identifiable and the timber stumps of the stationmaster's house, the railway formation and surviving timber sleepers are among the most visible remains. The railway embankment follows the eastern side of the valley between the town and smelter passing several miners' hut sites comprising rough stone walls, and benched surfaces with stone retaining walls.
  Identifiable sites in the valley include a cement surface formerly under the high-set school building, the police station site, and the original smelter site at the base of a hill on the western side of the valley.
  The town cemetery, about 200 metres (660 ft) south-east of the town, contains about fifteen headstones in separate sections for Catholics and Protestants. All but one headstone are from Melrose & Fenwick of Townsville. The grave sites include three women, a returned Anzac accidentally killed in the mine, a man who died of injuries in the local hospital, and a miner from Mount Cobalt who was buried in 1925 after Selwyn was almost deserted.
caption: Teacher and friends standing near a dwelling at Mount Elliott, 1905
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