Blue wonder of Mary K

Derek Barry
November 3 2016 - 8:47am
ALMOST BLUE: The open cut mine at the abandoned Mary Kathleen site. Photos: Derek Barry
ALMOST BLUE: The open cut mine at the abandoned Mary Kathleen site. Photos: Derek Barry

Uranium was first found at a site halfway between Mount Isa and Cloncurry in 1954 by Clem Walton and Norm McConachy and the site was named for Norm’s wife who had died only two weeks earlier.

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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