English and Australian Copper Company

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The first copper smelter, Adelaide Smelting Company, was built at the Port in 1849. The colony breathed a sigh of relief. Previously all South Australian ore was shipped all the way to Wales for treatment. In 1861, the English and Australian Copper Company fired up smelters in new, larger premises on bank of the Port River.

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Masonry office and chimney stack of the English and Australian Copper Company smelter

A group of men with cart standing outside the masonry perimeter wall of the copper smelter

By Adam Paterson, South Australian Maritime Museum

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Adam Paterson, South Australian Maritime Museum, ‘English and Australian Copper Company’, SA History Hub, History Trust of South Australia, https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/places/english-and-australian-copper-company/