Closure of Glencore's Mount Isa copper mine leaves city on economic cliff
Mount Isa has been one of two major domestic sources of the mineral since 1953 when it became a one-stop-shop for copper ...
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Announce it, and they will come: Mount Isa’s plan to expand
we’ve got everything here except iron ore and coal, and there is still a lot ... Glencore will be closing the 101-year-old mine Mount Isa is built around in July, and the Lady Loretta mine ...
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Flying whales, acid plant: Inside the $2.7bn bid to make Mount Isa great again
Mount Isa has unveiled a bold $2 billion bid to herald a brand new era for the mining mecca in outback Queensland. With the city’s Glencore copper mine set to shut down this year – and ...
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Is the Mount Isa-Townsville railway line pricing itself out of viability?
Centrex CEO Robert Mencel had publicly warned in January that exorbitant rail freight costs were a serious issue for the mine, which used the Mount Isa line to transport phosphate to the Port of ...
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Sparrows may be 'canary in the coal mine' for lead poisoning in children: study
The town is built around one of the nation's largest lead mines, and is divided by railway tracks and a giant wall of dirt, known as the "mullock heap", built from the ... and Mount Isa in ...