Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Mount Morgan - a New Beginning
- In
- Sixth National Conference on Engineering Heritage, 1992, Hobart 5-7 October 1992: Preprints of Papers
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Tasmania Division, Hobart, Tasmania, 1992, pp. 127-134
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0858255677
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.425017481612707
- Abstract
In November 1990 the Mount Morgan Mine closed after operating for 108 years. Not so many years ago, the last Company to operate the mine would have been allowed to sell up the plant and equipment, tidy up the area and walk away, leaving any problems which may have been created over the years for someone else to fix. Mount Morgan was the first major mine to close since the Queensland Government, honouring its 1989 election promise to end the destruction of heritage sites, gave notice of its intention to enact Heritage legislation. The Company was advised that it was required to observe the requirements of the Act and to satisfy certain environmental conditions before it would be allowed to surrender the property. This paper will discuss the effect the closure of the mine had on the township of Mount Morgan, and how the Heritage legislation enacted by the Queensland Government and two independent reports which recently studied the mine may affect its future use. The effect of discontinuing a program of environmental control work carried out by Mount Morgan Limited in the nine years before 1982 on the final state of the Open Cut will be reviewed. The work which the final owners have been required to do to comply with the Government's regulations will be examined in the light of future responsibility.
Related Published resources
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- Sixth National Conference on Engineering Heritage, 1992, Hobart 5-7 October 1992: Preprints of Papers (Hobart, Tasmania: Institution of Engineers, Australia, Tasmania Division, 1992), 140 pp. https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0858255677. Details