Comment: Rudall River - Someones put a uranium mine in my favourite National Par

G'day Mick
Yes mate, the plot is always thickening when it comes to mining and the greedy government ~ Federal, State and Local for that matter.

The Kintyre uranium feild and it's camp ~ "Camp Tracey" were sitting idle for years because of economic factors, more than Australias 3 mine policy.

Camp Tracey was dismanteled and the area rehabilitated, then it's all back to the mining industry and it's on again because it is all good with the government(s) and the poisonous crap is worth mining.

It was announced in the print media a couple of days ago, that the uranium concentrate will be trucked from Kintyre to the Kalgoorlie refiner, down the Marble Bar road and Great Northern Highway etc to Kal.

You seemed surprised at the annexation of Kintyre from the Rudall RiverN/P ~ Your National Park ~ don't be too surprised at what the sneaky buggers get up to when the miners wan't bits of any public land because the government just love taking the big bucks and doing next to zip for it.

There are plans in the future for extraction of Gold and Platinum somewhere inside the park boundaries, but that's supposed to be a secret OK !!

The Marrandoo Iron Ore Project at the base of Mount Bruce in the Karijini N/P ~ also your National Park ~ was extricated from within the boundaries of Karijini N/P by the Labour ( Carmen Lawrence ) Government in WA, back in the 1990's. Yes sneaky people doing sneaky deals and you don't even know about any of it until the deals are done !!!

Safe travells:


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Reply By: Mick O - Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 01:01

Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 01:01
Joe, nothing surprises me these days when it comes to governments and mining revenue, be they state or Federal. What annoys me is that we were privileged to locate some of the best petroglyphs I'd seen this side of the Calverts and this is now in the middle of this lease. What becomes of these? For all my wanderings about Rudall (and the western deserts for that matter), I've not seen art to match it outside the Calverts and Mungoolu (Constance Headland) areas. What happened to this in the cultural and environmental assessments? The top end of the park is now effectively cut off from vehicular access (unless you work for the mine). It does not seem possible to now plot a route in other than from Tjarra Pool area. This is a real shame as I am of the firm belief that some of the best features of the park are now totally isolated.

I had heard that Kintyre were also prospecting for Platinum and also diamonds believe it or not in the Kintyre lease area. I've not been able to identify a specific map of the extent of the Kintyre lease though.

It's a crying shame.


Cheers Mick
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