Mount Isa Mines
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Mount Isa Mines Limited operates the Mount Isa copper, lead, zinc and silver mines near Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia as part of the Glencore group of companies. For a brief period in 1980, MIM was
The Mount Isa Mines surface works as seen from the east bank of the Leichhardt River in 1932.
The sinter machines in the Mount Isa lead smelter, 1932.
Lead smelter casting area, 1933
Pouring from a Peirce-Smith copper converter, Mount Isa, 1954.
Lake Moondarra
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Lake Moondarra is an impounded reservoir formed by the Leichhardt River Dam, a concrete-faced rock-filled embankment dam across the Leichhardt River, located near Mount Isa in north-west Queensland, A
Mount Isa Mines
…output of five MW in 1931. It also, in 1958, constructed a new dam on the Leichhardt River to supply water to Mount Isa and the MIM operations and thus Lake Moondarra was created. The Black Rock open cut began operating in March 1957 to produce copper ore. Until 1963, the Black Rock open cut produced copper oxide ore…
Lake Moondarra
Panorama of the lake from the lookout above Transport Bay, in 2014.