Radium Hill
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Radium Hill is a former mine site in South Australia which operated from 1906 until 1961. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson, it was Australia's first uranium mine, years before the country's next major mine
Radium Hill minesite c.1954
Share certificate dated 1913 issued by the Radium Hill Company
Mary Kathleen, Queensland
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Mary Kathleen was a mining town in the locality of Cloncurry in the Shire of Cloncurry, North West, Queensland, Australia. It was located in the Selwyn Range between Mount Isa and Cloncurry.
Radium Hill
…Mawson, it was Australia's first uranium mine, years before the country's next major mines at Rum Jungle in the Northern Territory (opened 1950), and the Mary Kathleen mine in Queensland (1958). During its main period of production between 1954 and 1961, the mine produced nearly 1 million tonnes of davidite-bearing ore…
The abandoned open pit of Mary Kathleen mine, 2009
Mary Kathleen Post Office, 1959
Mine terraces, 2011
Rusted body of an abandoned Morris 8