Thread: Any Mt.Isa Members

Dont live there anymore Ferno but the way to get to the slag poor is to head out of town towards Boulia on the Mica Creek Road (down past the Irish club). If you go past the Tony White Oval you will come to a T intersecton. Turn right into the mine managers housing area. This is also where the big white 'manor' house is. If you keep following your nose through there onto a dirt road you should come around to a chain link fenced area. this area looks over the slag pits and every half hour or so the big slag trucks will come up and tip a load of molten slag into the pits. It was fairly impressive in its own small way. Dont know if you can still get there though.
Other than that i can recommend the picnic area past the lookout at the lake. If you follow the turn off to the right as you head up to the lookout there it goes down to a park where you can tease the peacocks or go fo a wander up to the dam wall.
Not much i know but it is Mt Isa and there is a reason no one stays there ;-)

well i am back from the Isa,twas very hot up there,found the manor house mick but all new housing in the area meant all new chain fencing and locked off areas, so didnt quite find the slag pours,so close yet so far ,did however stop in at the mary kathleen mine site,interesting hole in the ground