Mt. Carbine in the Cape York Peninsula of North Queensland, Australia

Gun Watch ^ | 20 May, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

While traveling to far North Queensland, Australia, I drove through Mt Carbine. The town has a history of a typical boom-bust mining town. Wolframite was discovered there in the 1890s. The town boomed with the price high, then depopulated after the end of World War I and the crash in the price of mineral markets, particularly for Tungsten.

The mineral leases were purchased again in 1968, and the town enjoyed resurgence from 1971 to 1986. Wolframite prices were falling, and the mine and equipment were sold off in 1993.

The town is said to be named after a racehorse called Carbine. There is no particular firearms provenance in the history of Mt Carbine.  There were a some of bloody conflicts between Aboriginals and European settlers in Cape York, especially near and in the gold fields.  Chinese were supposed to be preferred to Europeans by the Aboriginals for cannibalism, as they "tasted better". Those clashes happened 20 years before Mt Carbine was founded.



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[marktwain]

Quick mention of Mt Carbine in Northern Queensland, Australia. A little village in the wilds of Australia. What is left of a mine because of rising and falling Tungsten prices. Nothing to do with firearms except the name.

[Deaf Smith]

May have been the soy sauce that gave the Chineese that special taste.

[Vaquero]

Mt. Carbine. Not M1. Not this

[Vendome]

Chinese were supposed to be preferred to Europeans by the Aboriginals for cannibalism, as they “tasted better”.

I’ll bet they still hungry 30 minutes later...

[Big Red Badger]

I did Not know
Abbos’ were Cannibals!

[riverrunner]

A fact hidden by the main stream media.