Geologically speaking!
Another view across the Chinaman Creek Dam in Cloncurry. As different from the vast grass plains of Outback Queensland as you can get, (and they are only 50 kilometres or so down the road), these hills signify the change in geology around Cloncurry and west towards Mt. Isa. Them tha hills are full of rich mineral deposits, in fact, there is a mine about a kilometre away. Copper, silver, lead, zinc, uranium, gold and more have been or are mined in this massively rich area.
That is Black Mountain on the other side of the dam and the Black Mountain Hotel was once a stopover for bullockies (drovers driving cattle) and travellers coming in from the mining communities to the west. Water is pumped from the nearby Cloncurry River into the dam which was constructed in 1994 to keep it topped up.
Geologically speaking!
Another view across the Chinaman Creek Dam in Cloncurry. As different from the vast grass plains of Outback Queensland as you can get, (and they are only 50 kilometres or so down the road), these hills signify the change in geology around Cloncurry and west towards Mt. Isa. Them tha hills are full of rich mineral deposits, in fact, there is a mine about a kilometre away. Copper, silver, lead, zinc, uranium, gold and more have been or are mined in this massively rich area.
That is Black Mountain on the other side of the dam and the Black Mountain Hotel was once a stopover for bullockies (drovers driving cattle) and travellers coming in from the mining communities to the west. Water is pumped from the nearby Cloncurry River into the dam which was constructed in 1994 to keep it topped up.