Mount Isa's Hard Times mine tour celebrates its 100,000th visitor

Derek Barry
Updated July 26 2016 - 5:39pm, first published 4:54pm
The 100,000th Hard Times tourist Peter Lock from Tuross, NSW, is congratulated by MIM zinc boss Denis Hamel.
The 100,000th Hard Times tourist Peter Lock from Tuross, NSW, is congratulated by MIM zinc boss Denis Hamel.

The underground mine tour may be called Hard Times but for Outback at Isa, these are very good times indeed.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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