Copperfield

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Located 5km south of Clermont, Copperfield once was a booming township and home to Queensland's first copper mine. A must see is the Copperfield Store (now the local museum) which still has much of the store's original stock on its shelves. The old Copperfield Store owned and operated by the Duncan Family, was restored by the inmates of the Western Outreach Camp based in Clermont and opened as a small museum displaying photographs, history and memorabilia from Copperfield.

A single brick chimney, standing sentinel in the scrub, is now the only one remaining of the fourteen chimneys, which once represented the Peak Downs Copper Mines Unlimited. The mine was the first to be worked commercially outside South Australia and also the first rich mine in Queensland.

The site of Copperfield township, six kilometres south of Clermont and Peak Downs Copper Mine is testimony to the changing fortunes of the mining history.