The Mount Jukes Mine sites were a series of short-lived, small mine

Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...

 workings high on the upper regions of Mount Jukes

Mount Jukes (Tasmania)

Mount Jukes is a mountain in the West Coast Range on the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia. It was named by Charles Gould in 1862 after Professor Joseph Beete Jukes, English geologist, who was involved in issues relating to Charles Darwin...

 in the West Coast Range on the West Coast

West Coast, Tasmania

The West Coast of Tasmania is the part of the state that is strongly associated with wilderness, mining and tourism, rough country and isolation...

 of Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Upper Lake Jukes, and Lake Jukes had short lived mining companies incorporating the names of the lakes.

These mine sites (including Jukes Proprietary on the Northern edge of Mount Jukes above the King River

King River (Tasmania)

- Upper reaches :It rises in the vicinity of the Eldon Range, passes through the West Coast Range between Mount Huxley and Mount Jukes and empties in Macquarie Harbour near Strahan....

 Gorge) are examples of early twentieth century ingenuity where all equipment was transported with difficulty up small tracks from locations such as Crotty

Crotty, Tasmania

Crotty was a gazetted townsite in Western Tasmania, which had a smelter and railway connection with the North Mount Lyell mine in the very early twentieth century. The North Mount Lyell smelters failed, and the company was absorbed by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company...

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Access to parts of the slopes of Mount Jukes have been assisted by the construction of the Mount Jukes road by the HEC

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro Tasmania, known for most of its history as The HEC, is the government owned enterprise which is the predominant electricity generator in the state of Tasmania, Australia...

 following their construction of the King River Dam and the impoundment of Lake Burbury

Lake Burbury

Lake Burbury is a man-made lake created by the Crotty Dam made by Hydro Tasmania inundating the upper King River valley that lies east of the West Coast Range. It has a surface area of 54 square kilometres....

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List of mines

This list incorporates mines on Mount Darwin

Mount Darwin (Tasmania)

Mount Darwin, Tasmania is a mountain in the West Coast Range, Tasmania, named after Charles Darwin.-Location:On the eastern side of the mountain sits Darwin, a long-abandoned town site. Mount Darwin is the southernmost mountain of the West Coast range...

as the mineral zone of Mount Jukes is frequently cited as the Jukes-Darwin mineral zone.

• From the North -

• Jukes Proprietary - Copper and Gold
• Lake Jukes - Copper - low grade
• Hydes - Copper - low grade
• Hal Jukes - Copper - low grade
• Taylours Reward - Barite
• East Darwin - Copper
• Findons - Copper
• Mount Darwin - Copper and Gold
• Prince Darwin - Copper and Gold