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The Bogolong iron mine and blast furnace is an abandoned iron mining and smelting site, near Bookham, New South Wales, Australia. Located in an area known best for sheep grazing and wool, it has been called Australia's 'forgotten furnace'.[1] In 1874, the blast furnace produced a small amount of pig iron—sufficient to allow its testing—that was smelted[2] from iron ore mined nearby. Plans to operate commercially did not eventuate.[3] It is significant as one of the only three remaining ruins of 19th-Century iron-smelting blast furnaces in Australia, and the only one in New South Wales.[4]
- ^ Jack, Ian, 1935– (1994). Australia's age of iron : history and archaeology. Cremin, Aedeen. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press. p. 89. ISBN 0424001586. OCLC 30791353.
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- ^ "Bogolong Iron Smelter Blast Furnace | NSW Environment & Heritage". www.environment.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 20 August 2019.