Mary Kathleen Swimming Pool QLD @ ExplorOz

Everything else, including all the houses, has disappeared as the centre was completely closed down. It is now nothing more than a memory and a Memorial Park and Museum in McIlwraith St, Cloncurry.

Burke and Wills passed through the Mary Kathleen area in 1861 and it was duly settled by pastoralists in the late 1860s. It wasn't until 1954 that uranium (then the largest known deposit in Australia) was discovered by Walton and McConachy. The latter bestowed the name of his late wife, who had died a couple of weeks earlier, upon the town. In the next four years an eight-man syndicate was formed, a model town was built, a contract was signed with the UK Atomic Energy Authority, and the mine was brought into production. The town had two brief lives.

Mary Kathleen [0.58km]

Place Name
Mary Kathleen Ghost town which was once an important mining centre. This famous mining town has been reduced to a bitumen road leading into the bush about 55 km from Mt Isa and 62 km from Cloncurry. The site is not marked but is on the northern side of the road. All that is left of the once thriving town is a series of old streets.

Fountain Springs Rest Area [3.15km]
P-Bay

This is a very popular overnight Rest Area on the Barkly Hwy during the tourist season, It is 60.2klm from the Mount Isa KMart, and 60.8klm from the Cloncurry Shell Service Station. It is only 250m from this Rest Area toward Cloncurry to the turn off to the Fountain Springs Falls. And 3.6klm West to the Mary Kathleen Townsite.

Mary Kathleen [0.58km]

Fountain Springs Rest Area [3.15km]

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The swimming pool at Mary Kathleen is one of the amenities built by Mary Kathleen Uranium for its employees.

Mary Kathleen - the Town
Mary Kathleen Ghost town which was once an important mining centre. This famous mining town has been reduced to a bitumen road leading into the bush about 55 km from Mt Isa and 62 km from Cloncurry. The site is not marked but is on the northern side of the road. All that is left of the once thriving town is a series of old streets.