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Three men shovelling mineral sand onto a truck on Main Beach, North Stradbroke Island. The North Stradbroke Island sandmining industry started soon after World War 2 (1939-1945). It began on the east-facing Main Beach where wave action exposed seams of the black, mineral-bearing sand.

Shoveling mineral sand c.1940

image of dozer on beach

Bogged sand truck ca 1954

Sand trucks being unloaded from the barge onto the beach ca 1957

Sand trucks, ca 1957