What mines are in Mt Isa?
Mount Isa Mines Limited (“MIM”) operates the Mount Isa copper, lead, zinc and silver mines near Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia as part of the Glencore group of companies.
How many mines are in Mount Isa?
Mount Isa Mines operates two separate mining and processing streams, copper and zinc-lead-silver, near Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia.
How big is the Mt Isa mine?
The destination: Mount Isa, the deepest mine in Australia, 5,187 kilometers (3,223 miles) away.
Is Mt Isa a mining town?
Mount Isa is the largest and most impressive township in western Queensland. Unlike Longreach (its only competitor), which has a very rural feel, Mount Isa is a mining town with an air of self-confidence and sophistication which is rare in outback Queensland.
Why is it called Mt Isa?
However, Gordon Sheldon in his book ‘Industrial Siege’ claimed Cam Miles (as John Campbell Miles was known to family and immediate friends) staked his claim and called the craggy hill ‘Mount Isa’, after the Wester Australian gold mine ‘Mount Ida’.
Where was the first Mt Isa Mine located?
The Mount Isa Mine Early Infrastructure, established in the 1920s and early 1930s and located on the western edge of Mount Isa, is important as surviving evidence of the establishment of large-scale mining by the Mount Isa Mining Company (now known as Mount Isa Mines Limited (MIM)).
When did the lead smelter at Mount Isa stop?
The lead–zinc concentrator could treat the copper ore with little modification, but the lead smelter required the addition of second-hand equipment lying idle at the Kuridala, Mount Cuthbert and Mount Elliott mines. Lead smelting ceased on 9 April 1943 and sintering of copper concentrate commenced on the same day.
When was the Mount Isa power station built?
They comprise the Lawlor Shaft & Winding Plant, the Urquhart Shaft and Headframe, the Mount Isa Mine Experimental Dam, and the Mount Isa Mine Power Station. They were built from 1924 to c. 1963. They were added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 25 February 2005.
Where does Copper come from in Mount Isa?
Mount Isa Mines processes ore onsite at our concentrating and smelting operations, to produce copper anode, lead bullion and concentrates. Our products are then transported to Townsville, for further refinement and export to domestic and international markets. Ore mined is roughly crushed on site, then trucked to the Mount Isa mills for processing.