Mount Isa’s underground copper mine has ceased production after 70 years. The ground usually shakes twice a day in Mount Isa, at 8am and 8pm sharp, but today, the underground blasts won't happen. The 1.9-kilometre-deep copper mine has fed the smelter that sits beneath the city's candy-cane-striped smokestack for seven decades. It was Australia's deepest underground copper mine and the country's third-largest producer of copper. Glencore’s Head of Corporate Relations Cass McCarthy tells Steve Aus
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Mount Isa’s underground copper mine has ceased production after 70 years. The ground usually shakes twice a day in Mount Isa, at 8am and 8pm sharp, but today, the underground blasts won't happen. The 1.9-kilometre-deep copper mine has fed the smelter that sits beneath the city's candy-cane-striped smokestack for seven decades. It was Australia's deepest underground copper mine and the country's third-largest producer of copper. Glencore’s Head of Corporate Relations Cass McCarthy tells Steve Aus
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