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Cangai is a locality in Clarence Valley Council LGA, within the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. There was once a mining village of the same name, now a ghost town. Cangai lies near the Gibraltar Range, within the catchment of Mann River, which flows through the eastern part of the locality. The Gwyder Highway passes through it. It is approximately 70 km west-north-west of Grafton by road.
The area now known as Cangai lies on the traditional land of Gumbaynggirr people. Cangai takes its name from a pastoral run of approximately 8000 acres, originally known as 'Cangi', on the Mann River. It was taken from the local people, by Brisco Ray, around 1845. Two supposed explanations for the name 'Cangi' were that it is either from a local Aboriginal word 'Coong' meaning water or from 'Cangi', meaning 'men of the river branch', in Celtic. The further explanation of the Celtic name is that the Mann River (then called Mitchell River) was also known unofficially as 'the South Branch' (of Clarence River, with the Clarence itself, upstream of the confluence, being 'the North Branch'). The true origin of the name is unclear.
There was gold mining in the area, followed by the operation of the Cangai copper mine and its smelters, by Grafton Copper Mining Company Limited, from 1905 to 1917. In 1910, the Cangai copper mine ranked, behind the Great Cobar mine, as the second largest copper mine in New South Wales, by production, even if at a time when many other copper producing areas had closed down.
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