Kanmantoo is an Australian Aboriginal word which was applied to a copper mine in South Australia during the 19th century. It can now refer to:
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Kanmantoo mine
The Kanmantoo mine is a copper mine in the Australian state of South Australia located near the town of Kanmantoo about southeast of the state capital of Adelaide.
History
Copper was first discovered and mined in the 1840s. The town was establi ...
produces copper and gold in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia
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Kanmantoo, South Australia
Kanmantoo is a small mining town in South Australia. It is southeast of Adelaide in the eastern Adelaide Hills. It is in the catchment basin of the Bremer river. The name, derived from a local aboriginal word Kunga Tuko means, "different speech ...
, a town which grew to support the mine in the 1840s
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Hundred of Kanmantoo
The Hundred of Kanmantoo is a cadastral unit of hundred in the eastern Adelaide Hills. One of the 10 hundreds of the County of Sturt, it was proclaimed on 13 November 1847 by Governor Frederick Robe and named after the Kanmantoo gold mine, itse ...
, cadastral division of South Australia
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Kanmantoo (biogeographic region), a region within the
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia
The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) is a biogeography, biogeographic regionalisation of Australia developed by the Australian government's Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities ( ...
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Kanmantoo group
The Kanmantoo group is a label for the kind of rocks found predominantly along the eastern side of the southern Mount Lofty Ranges, including Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island. Examples of where they are visible at the surface include severa ...
, a classification of Cambrian sedimentary rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline
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