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i believe Campbell Newman has announce uranium mining will start up again.........this place maybe full of people again;);)Quote:
Originally Posted by juddy
with uranium mining set to start again radiation queensland visited our site recently as we are one of the few mines that produce products with raised radiation levels.....hopefully some of our good work will be used at these mines in the futureQuote:
Originally Posted by justinc
Thanks, we are stopping at Cloncurry, must check out the museum.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonesfam
I think if it wasnt safe in the general area it would be closed to the public, but there was a locked gate on the track to the pit, which you can easily walk around. When I was checking google images I saw a pic of 3 blokes swimming in that toxic water. Now I'm ok with not wearing sunscreen but thats just plain crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by snowbound
(I did pick up one rock sample that glows orange under UV light)
I wasnt game to touch it, it looked very much under pressure, both caps were still intact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cobber
JC, thanks for the tip, wee McGregor is on our list. Hope the cow didnt die of radiation poisoning. Next time I might pack a geiger counter :D
Weeds, very interesting, History repeats itself !!!
There's not a great deal in the 'Curry but the bowls club puts on a decent feed.
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Originally Posted by goingbush
I'm not sure you will get the 110 through the Bellara Tunnel Don. it was a tight squeeze at one end, When we were there I had to remove the roofracks on the Rangie to get through, it did have a bit of a suspension lift and a body lift so you might be right in the defender... the bats in the roof were quite active while we had lunch in there and when they smelt the bacon cooking, 2 actually fell onto the floor and were quite unwell from the cooking fumes i recall:(....:p
a fantastic trip, well worth the look around there.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=m...%3B3071%3B2039
this was a typical company house, the extra doors were actually fire escape doors for every bedroom, the lean to on the side of the building housed the laundry, and my sister in law rode her tricycle straight off the end of the verandah and broke her nose at age 3 or therabouts...:o
the better half has heaps of stories about life there as an 8 year old.
jc
wee mcgregor mine - Google Maps
the ballara tunnel :)
I lived and worked at both Yallourn and mary K, i must be a jinx or something, probably something, Regards Frank.Quote:
Originally Posted by bacicat
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...013/06/788.jpg
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Frank, I hope it wasn't you that was driving the truck that turned turtle...:D
Some great photos there - thanks.
No it wasn't me, I was working on the construction side of the mine, at that time we were building the Rod Mill loader, the truck driver wasn't hurt, he was playing silly buggers by racing the other dump trucks, didn't help that the loader was digging away at the bottom of the stockpile. Was a great place to work and made some good friends, great hunting in the gulf country as well, Regards Frank.Quote:
Originally Posted by bacicat
When were the photos taken Frank ????
In the late 60's we lived at a place called Moline in the NT (east of Pine Creek). My father worked for a company called "United Uranium". They had the Moline mine (was silver, lead, zinc at the time, but at various times in its life, the mill had processed gold, copper and uranium as well). They also had the El Sharana uranium mine (not operating when we were there), as well as the South Alligator gold mine.
I remember that the geologists used to travel regularly between Moline and Mary K - the work vehicles in those days were all Landrovers (I learnt to drive in one of them). My father had a Series II trayback, and his private car was an Austin Freeway wagon, which we used to travel regularly to either Darwin or Katherine in.
Went back up there for a look a few years ago - there's still a lot of things up there that I remember as a kid.
On the southern side of the highway there was a dam, Clem Walton dam, that was constructed to supply water to the township of Mary K. The turnoff was almost opposite the township turnoff if I remember correctly.
When I was a pup and drove tourist coaches throughout the centre of Australia we used to call in at the park area at the dam for tea en route to the Isa. A magnificent area in its day, green lawn, shady trees and rock wallabies everywhere, a perfect oasis in a harsh countryside.
A bit of fun getting a 40' coach in though sometimes but we managed it.
I remember stalling in the creek one time in first gear and causing the engine (GM 671) to run backwards for a short time. That was fun, sucking in through the exhaust and exhausting tons of smoke through the air intake (situated in the rear toilet area in a coach) straight into the passenger compartment.
Back in those days some of the old original track from the Curry to Mt Isa that was known as the "horror stretch" back in the 'Redex trial' days of Jack Murray and the likes, was still visible from the highway.
That must have been a track and a half and yet they drove conventional cars over it. (Well, some managed it!)
Country areas such as this all have a distinctive attraction to them, its just that today we have modern roads that allow speeds of 100+kms and we don't see half of what is out there.
It is great to see people getting out and smelling the daisies, rather than simply "doing" a road.
Regards
Glen