Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- The Development of the Mary Kathleen Uranium Mine
- In
- Engineering Heritage Matters: Conference Papers of the 12th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Toowoomba, 29 September to 1 October 2003
- Imprint
- Engineers Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 2003, pp. 147-151
- ISBN/ISSN
- 064642775X
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.339096739351868
- Abstract
Mary Kathleen was the largest of the early uranium mines in Australia in the 1950s. The way in which the project developed and the operation differed from other uranium and mining projects in several important respects. It arose from the rapid interest in and development of the nuclear based energy industry after World War 2, the efforts by the U K Atomic Energy Authority to develop contract supplies of uranium oxide at the times of and uncertainties of the 'cold war'. The Australian government for its part was encouraging a resurgence of the Australian mining industry and new technologies made processing of this extremely complex ore feasible. The British mining house Rio Tinto Ltd. was seeking projects to replace its Spanish operations and finally the availability of a long term sales contract and the joint funding arrangements which were negotiated not only made rapid development possible but also put a financial premium on early start-up. What followed had many new and innovative aspects.
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- Engineering Heritage Matters: Conference Papers of the 12th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Toowoomba, 29 Sept to 1 Oct 2003 edited by Sheridan, Norman (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2003), 183 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.064642775X. Details