page_title: Harold Snell (Darwin businessman)
section_title: Mining career
hierarchical_section_title: Harold Snell (Darwin businessman) / Early life / Mining career
caption_attribution_description: English: The tin mine at Maranboy. Harold Snell and two partners had a tin mining lease here. He was working there when he enlisted. His two partners continued to work the mine during the war when prices were good and banked his share of the profits. Just before Harold returned to the Territory, a solicitor and the profits disappeared to Singapore. (PH0233/0048)
context_page_description: Ormond Harold Edward George Snell, best known as Harold Snell, was a soldier, miner, primary producer, carpenter, builder and businessman in the Northern Territory of Australia. He built many historic buildings in Darwin.
context_section_description: After completing work on the Myilly Point houses, Snell took up a mining lease at Maranboy, eight kilometres from where the community of Barunga is today, after the discovery of tin in the region in 1913. He partnered with Pearce and Marshall in the Star of the East tin mine, one of the better known mines in the Northern Territory at the time. After his war service, Snell returned to tin mining at Maranboy later having shares in many mines including Pine Creek Enterprise Gold, Golden Dyke Gold Mine, Eleanor Vendor, Fletcher Gully Gold Mine and Eleanor Gold Mine. All were financially unrewarding for Snell.
caption: Harold Snell's the tin mine at Maranboy.
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