The view across the town centre to the mine

There's still a lot of the original drugs and gear there

Amazingly, Japan was prepared with currency designs for all the countries they were about to conque

Huge machines! This is an underground electric tip truck, see the pantograph

A diagram of all the shafts under Mt Isa

Alan (who is a 90 year old ex miner) who still helps with the tours

Fascinating demo of how they blow things up in a quite clever way

On the way out of Mt Isa, we thought our rig was big until we parked it next to a road train

Mount Isa (Kevin's photos)

July 10, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

In contrast to the quaint little country towns we have been visiting recently, Mount Isa was very much a big, industrial town with a major mine in the middle of it.

Despite this it was fascinating in its own way, albeit with a fair bit more crime (there were 2 cars stolen from our caravan park in a week!)

We visited the underground hospital which was prepared for a WWII invasion by Japan. Also Kevin went on a tour in a mine that was set up as a demonstration of how the underground mining had gone on in the past and present. Lots of big awesome machines!Read more