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Cobar, town, central New South Wales, Australia. It is located in the Western Plains region. Cobar began as a copper-mining centre in the 19th century and remains principally a mining town. Its name possibly was derived from an Aboriginal word meaning “red earth” or, alternatively, may have been a corruption of the word copper. The town’s origins date to 1869 or 1870, when a party of well-sinkers being guided through the area by two Aboriginal men noticed strange green streaks next to a water hole near their campsite. They took samples of their discovery to a Cornish woman who had ...(100 of 405 words)

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