Robert VINCENT
This presentation will focus on Robert Carl Sticht and his unique contribution to Australian Copper Mining – an international first that had very wide implications.
1. The valuing and recognition of industrial (mining sites) and the documentary evidence
2. Conservation management particularly of the documentary resource
3. Interpretation of remaining evidence using the documentary evidence
The key future heritage management challenge here is conservation management and interpretation, especially of the Robert Carl Sticht Collection and the Mt. Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Collections, and the interpretation of the Mine through mining tours above and below ground.
There is currently an active Committee at Queenstown that is working on a proposal to establish the Sticht Centre for Cultural and Natural Heritage Studies.