Anyone with an interest in local mining history will be keen to pick up a new book that has hit the shelves.
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The book is on the abandoned uranium mine at Mary Kathleen, halfway between Mount Isa and Cloncurry, and is written by a former miner reflecting on his time there through the last year of operation between 1981 and 1982.
The book, Mary Kathleen Reflections: A loss of innocence working at a uranium mine in the Australian outback by Andrew Cuthbertson, is targeted at today's tourists exploring the "ghost town" showing previously unseen photographs of the mine, processing plant, tailing dam, and township taken during the final year of operation.
Readers are given an understanding of what it was like for three generations of miners and their families who called Mary Kathleen a home through the experiences of a young man entering the workforce for the first time and his often humorous observations of this remote outback mine and the tight-knit community that supported it.
The book is available through Amazon.com.au in paperback and electronic Kindle format.
Mr Cuthbertson, who has recently retired from the international mining industry after four decades, was due to visit the region in late May this year to reflect upon where his career first began but has delayed his visit until current travel restrictions to Queensland have been lifted.
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Derek Barry
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.
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.
