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August 2002 -- From Sydney to Hayricks
Our 14 hour trip to the Queensland mine area and new pictures of the mining at Hayricks.
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August 2002 - dry winter in the Outback of OZ.
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Fourteen hour drive on the wrong side of the road.
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Great dirt roads!
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Artesian wells spring from the largest acquifer in the world. This water is hot
enough to burn the hand!
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Alluvium road -- dug up.
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At Bourke, six-hour drive from the coast, a boat.
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Stoplight in the Outback.
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Feet, bored ... mile #?
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Dry winter landscape of the Outback.
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Still more dry land.
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Metro Quilpie, small hamlet near Hayricks Mine -- features a paved mainstreet
between miles of dirt road. In Quilpie: 1 butcher, 2 groceries, 1 video store -- stores open 7:30 to
8:30pm -- and a hospital with a doctor.
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Countryside near Hayricks.
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Nearer Hayricks...
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The Hayricks hilton, 1-1/2 hour drive from Quilpie.
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Mesa top at Hayricks mine.
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The Mesa face.
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Mesa and dumps at Hayricks.
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CAT 350L excavator -- heavy equipment needed for mining boulder opal.
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Sandstone face with several boulder opals visible.
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Hayricks Queensland boulder opal, sandstone face.
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CAT350L big equipment at the face.
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Bucket scratch marks on the sandstone face.
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Hayricks sandstone face with Queensland boulder opal.
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Some Queensland boulder opal.
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Boulders in the sandstone face.
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Adams mine, one hour drive from Hayricks. Very crude facilities, tree for a
WC.
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Big boulder at Adams mine.
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