All that is left of Luina are the culverts and bitumen on roads. There are no houses.

Luina
Ghost mining town on the isolated west coast.
Located 131 km north of Queenstown, 89 km south of Burnie and 21 km east of Savage River, Luina was once a tiny tin mining town on the Whyte River which has twice come into existence as a result of the osmiridium, gold, silver-lead, copper and tin deposits in the area. Today it is nothing more than a few streets, some gutters and culverts and places where once there were houses. It can be located on the south side of the Whyte River.

Luina was originally developed as a township in 1898 when, following the discovery of copper and tin, miners were brought in to extract the valuable minerals. Shortly after the Whyte River was the scene of a brief gold rush. But all this activity was short-lived. By the end of World War I the copper-tin mining operation had closed down and it wasn't until 1967, when Cleveland Tin NL poured millions of dollars into the area and built a company town of over 60 houses, that Luina returned to life. The basis of the town's economic success was the establishment of the Mount Cleveland Tin Mine. By the early 1970s Cleveland Tin NL had become the second largest tin producer in Australia.

In his informative book The West Coast Story, Kerry Pink outlines the production capacity of the Mt Cleveland mine. 'The Cleveland mine has a production capacity of about 450 000 tonnes of ore a year for the recovery of about 1500 tonnes of tin in concentrate and about 500 tonnes of copper concentrate. The average head grade of its ore is now 0.65 per cent tin and 0.22 per cent copper. Proved and indicated ore reserves are about 2 million tonnes.'

In spite of these figures the production of the mine was always marginal and when the International Tin Agreement reduced production to 40 per cent of capacity, the mine was forced to close. .

Things to see:  

Bushwalking in the area
While the tourist appeal of the town is limited there are excellent bushwalks to the top of Mount Cleveland (a twin peaked mountain rising to 857m), there are swimming and picnic facilities on both the Whyte and Heazlewood Rivers. It is now defined simply as the "Aberfoyle Resources Revegetation Project".

Accommodation and Eating
No accommodation or eating facilities are available.