Place Comment: Fenced off area for Air Strip

downhilly
Is there really a place called "Fenced off area for Air Strip"? Funny name!

What does this comment mean?
Where is it?
Which mine is involved?

Please Explain.

I have to agree with RMD (not often I do that, the old grump), that the post by downhilly is quite uninformative.

Airstrips are fenced off for 2 reasons - to either ensure a secure area on the "airside" operational zone - or in the more remote areas, to ensure straying stock and wildlife can't walk/run/hop onto the airstrip, right as you're taking off or landing - which can be quite disastrous, as the ATSB accident reports will tell you.

Minesites are also obliged to be fenced off by the leaseholder, under W.A. Mining Laws.
This law is not always enforced to the letter, due to abandoned mines, leaseholders surrendering their leases, and companies being liquidated.

It would be helpful to put in the Place comments, more information regarding the fence, whether it poses a hazard, whether it's protecting a hazard - and anything else a new arrival to the Place, would want to know, to be fully informed.

Cheers, Ron.

Hi downhilly

Have you actually been there to see if there is an actual mine site there?

Why I am interested is because when we were in those parts of the woods a good number of years ago, the actual Tropicana Gold mine was quite some distance north.

The image on the places pages does related to the southern boundary of the very large fenced off area to exclude all large native animals away from the actual airstrip and surrounding area, with camels being the major culprit. The actual fence was very well constructed, and had a good number of small solar panels in place along the outer perimeter to keep the fence electrified, to keep everything from dingos, Kangaroos and the large feral camels out. The last thing that any pilot would want to see while coming in to land is a group of camels on the airstrip.

When we were there, we did meet a geologist that was taking core sample for gold and he was telling us about the actual mine that was being constructed, well north of the fence in question.

I know that mining interests do change and if you have actually been the site in the image in question?


I would like to hear your reply.



Cheers



Stephen