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<span class="heading">Cloncurry Shire</span>
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<p><b>Friendly Heart</b>

<p>Cloncurry is the friendly heart of the great north west as a welcome crossroads with a strong community spirit.  Locals stop here to yarn about dramas and dreams of outback life.  The Curry has many rewards for the traveller who decides to dwell a while.  The town is a unique cultural mix in a natural wonderland.  There are museums, pubs, great food, fossicking and the biggest cattle stations and copper mines in Australia.

<p><b>Natural Wonderland</b>

<p>A landscape of rocky hills and creeks, gidgee trees and buffel grass downs changes with weather and shifting skies.  A mosaic of coloured rockforms hides great mineral riches within, from black gold to ruby-red cuprite.  Animals abound, with two unique bird species:  the vivid Cloncurry parrot and the tiny Kalkadoon grass wren.

<p><b>Outback Legends</b>

<p>Mitakoodi, Kalkadoon and Pitta Pitta Aboriginal people lived and worked this place for generations. They fought frontier wars with pastoralists and prospectors to contest lands and customs.

<p>Cloncurry breathes cattle and has copper and gold in its veins.  In 1867 Ernest Henry and Roger Sheaffe started a joint pastoral-mining venture on the banks of Cloncurry River, named by the ill-fated explorer Robert O