Queensland’s Kuridala copper town prospered during World War I, but a 1918 cyclone damaged its smelter before the plant closed in 1920

Queensland’s Kuridala copper town prospered during World War I, but a 1918 cyclone damaged its smelter before the plant closed in 1920

Kuridala, about 65–70 km south of Cloncurry in Queensland, grew into an important copper-mining settlement before and during World War I.