Three ABC articles – radio – 7.30 Report.
Looks from the air like a normal open cut – heap leach site – all works would have been approved by Mines Dept.
It would cost many millions of dollars to replicate the engineering works at this established silver mining site – the silver price in AU$ shows signs of forming a bottom – the site could well open again when economic conditions improve for silver. So the site should be regarded as a valuable State asset.
2008 aerial view with labels
The Dept is holding a $2million bond which would be way in excess of some precautionary dam works to confine any runoff.
It is not apparent from the aerials where there is a pond in danger of spilling.
If any readers are local to Texas – they might have more information – presumably the site is managed by a caretaker as there must be much valuable gear there. As Beachgirl said at comment 8 – the ABC talks big about cyanide yet the Qld Mines Dept say cyanide levels are […less than “the level for release to surface waters cited in the International Cyanide Management Code”.]
So as usual the truth is in short supply whereas anti-mining propaganda is beaten up big time.
This presumably is the previous operator.
Looks to me just like yet another case of petulant, self-righteous , bloody minded “info-vandalism” by “our ABC”.
Anything is a good yarn to them if it bucks the system & has a shot at what is actually paying the rent for a nett debtor nation like Australia:-
www.rba.gov.au/chart-pack/balance-payments.html
A day of reality & economic reckoning is looming very large for the whole world [ brought to a household near you by the City of London] & the conceited fools at the ABC are getting a Billion + a year to help Aus get there first.
Aren’t we lucky to have them!
Not my ABC……….
Whaleoil on the anti-mining propaganda in New Zealand
Mine it, drill it, sell it
www.whaleoil.co.nz/2015/10/mine-it-drill-it-sell-it-2/