Uranium Mine - Mary Kathleen.
Still camping at the old Mary Kathleen Townsite, my friend Graeme wanted to checkout the old Uranium Mine he has already been there before, but he decided to re check the old site out and invited me and jools along. It is only 7klms down the road which is bitumen so far with lots of deep potholes, and gravel road to the entrance. On entry you can see old concrete areas where boom gates for security would have been. There is lots of concrete kerbing you can see, where old buildings once stood. Driving around there is plenty of evidence of dump areas were big rocks being dump when the mine was operating. We found huge concrete stands where the rock crushers would have stood. Early pictures from a billboard in the township area demonstrates what it is like. The mine and mining equipment that was used, in the days of mining operations. Many tracks and the one that leads to the Uranium Mine. Driving up to the mine site. The water is so blue from copper oxide and maybe it is also a ra