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Monto is a town in Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, located on the Burnett Highway
Burnett Highway

The Burnett Highway is an inland rural highway located in Queensland, Australia. The highway runs generally north - south, from its junction with the Bruce Highway, just south of Rockhampton, Queensland, to Nanango, Queensland....
 500km north-west of Brisbane
Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
 and 235km south of Rockhampton
Rockhampton, Queensland

Rockhampton is a regional city and Local Government Areas of Australia located in Queensland, Australia. Rockhampton is the largest urban centre in Central Queensland with the 2006 census recording the Rockhampton Statistical Subdivision population to be 74,530 people....
. The town is the administrative centre of Monto Shire. At the 2006 census
Census in Australia

The Australian census is administered by the Australian Bureau of Statistics every five years. The most recent census was conducted on 8 August 2006....
, Monto had a population of 1,159.

peans settled in the area in the late 1840s, maintaining large pastoral holdings at the northern end of the Burnett Valley. Gold unearthed along Three Moon Creek - a tributary of the Burnett River
Burnett River

The Burnett River is a river in central Queensland, Australia that empties into the Pacific Ocean near the city of Bundaberg, Queensland. The Burnett River region is largely given over to growing sugar cane....
 - in the 1870s attracted further settlers.






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Monto is a town in Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, located on the Burnett Highway
Burnett Highway

The Burnett Highway is an inland rural highway located in Queensland, Australia. The highway runs generally north - south, from its junction with the Bruce Highway, just south of Rockhampton, Queensland, to Nanango, Queensland....
 500km north-west of Brisbane
Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
 and 235km south of Rockhampton
Rockhampton, Queensland

Rockhampton is a regional city and Local Government Areas of Australia located in Queensland, Australia. Rockhampton is the largest urban centre in Central Queensland with the 2006 census recording the Rockhampton Statistical Subdivision population to be 74,530 people....
. The town is the administrative centre of Monto Shire. At the 2006 census
Census in Australia

The Australian census is administered by the Australian Bureau of Statistics every five years. The most recent census was conducted on 8 August 2006....
, Monto had a population of 1,159.

History

Europeans settled in the area in the late 1840s, maintaining large pastoral holdings at the northern end of the Burnett Valley. Gold unearthed along Three Moon Creek - a tributary of the Burnett River
Burnett River

The Burnett River is a river in central Queensland, Australia that empties into the Pacific Ocean near the city of Bundaberg, Queensland. The Burnett River region is largely given over to growing sugar cane....
 - in the 1870s attracted further settlers. The original site of the diggings, 30km north of present-day Monto, has since been flooded by construction of Cania Dam
Cania Dam

Cania Dam is a dam in central Queensland, Australia, north west of Monto, Queensland. The dam is situated on Three Moon Creek, a tributary of the Burnett River....
. The township of Monto was not formally established until 1924. With dwindling gold reserves, Monto turned its economy towards farming and logging, two of the region's major industries today. Deposits of thermal coal and limestone have been discovered in the shire.

Tourism

Tourism is also a major industry in the region. Besides being a major highway town, the chief local attraction is Cania Gorge National Park
Cania Gorge National Park

Cania Gorge is a national park in Queensland , 373 km northwest of Brisbane. The nearest town is Monto, Queensland.The park's most dominant features are the high sandstone cliffs....
, 20km north of town.

Mining

In 2006, Monto Minerals floated on the Alternative Investment Market
Alternative Investment Market

The Alternative Investment Market is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller company to initial public offering stock with a more flexible financial regulation than is applicable to the Main Market....
 in London, raising approximately AUD $41,000,000 before expenses. It has since announced its plans to begin commercial production of Feldspar
Feldspar

Feldspars are a group of rock-forming tectosilicate minerals which make up as much as 60% of the Earth's Crust .Feldspars crystallize from magma in both intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks, as veins, and are also present in many types of metamorphic rock....
, Ilmenite
Ilmenite

Ilmenite is a weakly Magnetism titanium-iron oxide mineral which is iron-black or steel-gray. It is a crystalline iron titanium oxide . It crystallizes in the trigonal system, and it has the same crystal structure as corundum and hematite....
, Apatite
Apatite

Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite, fluorapatite, and chlorapatite, named for high concentrations of Hydroxyl−, Fluorine−, or Chlorine− ions, respectively, in the crystal....
 and Titanomagnetite from its site at the Goondicum crater, just outside the eastern border of Monto Shire by the second quarter of 2007.

Coal
Coal

Coal is a readily combustion black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. The harder forms, such as anthracite, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure....
 mining company Macarthur Coal also owns large amounts of land in the Mulgildie
Mulgildie, Queensland

Mulgildie is a town in Queensland, Australia. The town is located from the state capital, Brisbane. At the 2006 Census in Australia, Mulgildie had a population of 114....
 area.

See also


  • Shire of Monto
    Shire of Monto

    The Shire of Monto was a Local Government Areas of Australia located in the northern catchment of the Burnett River, Queensland, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1932 until 2008, when it amalgamated with several other councils in the region to become the North Burnett Regional Council....
  • The Boyne Valley
  • Cania Gorge National Park
    Cania Gorge National Park

    Cania Gorge is a national park in Queensland , 373 km northwest of Brisbane. The nearest town is Monto, Queensland.The park's most dominant features are the high sandstone cliffs....
  • Gil Jamieson
    Gil Jamieson

    Gil Jamieson was an Australian Painting. Jamieson was born in the central Queensland town of Monto, Queensland in 1934 and died there in 1992....


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