number of heritage-listed sites, including: Anne Street: Church of Christ Bridge Street: Boer War Veterans Memorial Kiosk and Lissner Park Columbia, Toll: Bore Sight Range and Compass Swinging Platform 25 Deane Street: Aldborough Enterprise Road, Queenton: Signals, Crane and Subway, Charters Towers Railway Station 17 Gill Street: Charters Towers Post Office 18 Gill Street: Pollard's Store (now K Hub) 34–36 Gill Street: Bank of New South Wales 49 Gill Street: Charters Towers Police Station 134 Gill Street: St Columba's Church Bell Tower 157 Gill Street: Ambulance Building 39 – 47 High Street: Charters Towers Central State School 24 – 26 Hodgkinson Street: School of Mines 28 Hodgkinson Street: Charters Towers Courthouse 63 Hodgkinson Street: Ay Ot Lookout 57 – 59 King Street, Richmond Hill: Thornburgh House MacDonald Street, Millchester: Venus State Battery Mosman Street: Bartlam's Store (now Zara Clark Museum) 65 Mosman Street: ED Miles Mining Exchange 72 Mosman Street (): Queensland National Bank 76 Mosman Street: Charters Towers Stock Exchange Arcade 86 Mosman Street: Australian Bank of Commerce 90 Mosman Street: Lyall's Jewellery Shop Paull Street: Day Dawn mine remains 2–6 Paull Street: Pfeiffer House 20 Ryan Street: Charters Towers Masonic Lodge 36 Ryan Street: Civic Club Towers Hill: Mining works on Towers Hill Some of Charters Towers's heritage is spread across the town: Alabama, Millchester, Queenton, Towers Hill: Charters Towers mine shafts Charters Towers City, Millchester, Queenton, Richmond Hill: Stone kerbing, channels and footbridges of Charters Towers Population According to the 2016 census, 8,120 people were residing in Charters Towers. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 10.9% of the population. About 83.3% of people were born in Australia. The next-most common countries of birth were New Zealand 1.5% and England 1.3%. About 87.6% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were no religion 24.4%, Catholic 23.5%, and Anglican 18.0%. Economy Charters Towers is a regional centre for the mining industry, the beef industry, and education, specifically boarding schools catering for remote rural families. Mining More gold has been estimated to exist underground than the total removed in the gold rush. Hundreds of separate mining leases covering an area of 200 km2 were consolidated by James Lynch in the 1970s and 1980s and the company Citigold listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1993. After 89 years, the goldfields were reopened, and gold was produced again from the Warrior Mine southeast