abandoned mine Townsville

silly question....where is "high range" in relation to Townsville?

Andrew

Ring Su McLennan at the Dalrymple Shire Council, she will know.

High Range training area incorporates Dotswood and Star training areas (former stations) as well as a few others. I was last there about 7 years ago and am still picking the spear grass out of me.

There are a bunch of alluvial tin mines up there as well as a few alluvial gold mines. The gold mines are to be avoided as they used to water huge piles of dirt with cyanide solution and apparently, the dust is not real good for you.

There is a road that cuts across from the road that runs out the back of Paluma (out past Hidden Valley) to the Gregory Developmental road that has an old tin mine straddling the road. It’s an interesting place to have a poke around.
I remember reading that there is somewhere that you can get to near the top of the High range escarpment that a tag-along-tour operator was taking people to, but it can only be accessed through private property.
There might be something happening out at Greenvale too.

Might be the one. I think I read it on forum.australia4wd.com/ but it is down tonight.

There is also an abandoned uranium mine up there as well. I believe it is off limits though.