Crunching through the central Queensland bush among brick ruins, a cemetery and what remains of a simple corner store, it's hard to believe the town of Copperfield was once a bustling mining centre.
Today the "ghost town" provides a snapshot of a time gone by when scores of people took to rural Queensland in an attempt to make their fortunes.
The town, just outside of Clermont, was thriving in the 1870s, several years after the state's first copper mine opened there.
