a company town that existed for roughly 20 years until the iron ore mining ceased in 1993. Silverton is a former silver mining town in New South Wales that was deserted when more lucrative silver-lead-zinc ore was discovered at nearby Broken Hill. Tarcoon, New South Wales Walhalla, Victoria, was never fully abandoned and has now become a popular tourist town. Western Tyers, a timber community in Victoria, was abandoned after the timber mill closed in 1969. Whroo, a former mining town in Victoria. Wittenoom in Western Australia was the country's only source of blue asbestos (crocidolite) in the 1950s and 60s. The mine was shut down in 1966, and the residents of the town were gradually relocated, due to concerns that the asbestos in the air posed a danger to their health. Yerranderie is a former silver mine in New South Wales. New Zealand Denniston was a coal mining town in the West Coast Region of the South Island of New Zealand. Formerly with a population of around 1400, it now has about ten residents. Jamestown was a settlement in what is now Fiordland National Park. Kelso was abandoned after severe and repeated flooding in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lyell was a gold mining town in the Buller Gorge in the South Island. Macetown was a gold rush town in Central Otago that started to decline during the 20th century. Nenthorn was an Otago gold mining town from 1888 until the 1890s, abandoned when its mining efforts collapsed. Only two ruined buildings and the remains of a battery remain. Port Craig is a former logging township on the southwest coast of the South Island. Port Molyneux was a port at the mouth of the Clutha River in Otago. After a flood caused the river mouth to move, the town was abandoned. Port Pegasus was a township on the south coast of Stewart Island in southern New Zealand. Rotowaro, a coal mining town, was removed in the 1980s to make way for an opencast mine. It is the site of the now abandoned Rotowaro Carbonisation Plant. Te Hutewai was a very small farming community located around 10 km south of Raglan, in the Waikato District. A school was built but was burnt down in the 1960s and the area today is now farmland. Te Wairoa, also called "The Buried Village", was a small Māori village that was destroyed by