The ISA
Hot hard grubby work! The Isa is know to be the most productive mines on Earth, mining Silver, Gold,Copper, Zinc and Lead. I got stuck in the lead concentrator Number 2.
Not fun at all. This a picture of one of the smelters.
Mount Isa is Queensland's largest provincial city west of the Great Dividing Range. The population of 22,000 consists of more than fifty different nationalities living together.
The climate of Mount Isa is governed by three main criteria: Tropical location (latitude), elevation and distance from the coast. With the Gulf of Carpentaria approximately 340km to the north, and the Coral Sea 740km to the east-northeast, the climate of Mount Isa is suitably described as Tropical Continental. Although maximum temperatures can reach well into the 40-degree scale in Summer (45.9 degrees on the 29th of January 1990 the highest temperature recorded for Mount Isa), the higher elevation of the Northwest uplands from the surrounding area (150m higher) has a significant moderating effect on temperatures. This can be shown by the temperature differences experienced in Mount Isa as compared to neighboring townships such as Cloncurry, Boulia, Winton and Urandangie on the Western Plains.