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Mt Isa Queensland (with a little Plagiarism thrown in)

Mount Isa City covers an area of over 43310 square kilometres, making it geographically the second largest city in Australia. With a population of approximately 23500, Mount Isa is a major service centre for North West Queensland, and a thriving city well equipped to satisfy residential, business and industrial needs.
The residents of Mount Isa lack nothing when it comes to shopping. All of the shops and services that one would expect to find in a modern city can be found in Mount Isa.
Major retail chains, such as K-Mart, Coles, Retravision, Harvey Norman, and Woolworths (PLUS good clubs and pubs) are represented together with a wide range of specialist retailers.
In 1923 lone prospector John Campbell Miles, while travelling on a gold prospecting trip to the Northern Territory, camped by the banks of the Leichhardt River. Sampling a nearby rock outcrop, he realised that it was heavily mineralised.and had stumbled on to one of the world’s richest copper, silver, lead and zinc ore bodies.He decided to call his discovery “Mount Isa” after the stories he had heard of the Mount Ida goldfield in Western Australia.Almost 100 years later, the Mount Isa Mine (now owned by Swiss mining giant, Xstrata) is still one of Australia’s largest producers of copper ore.The early pioneers of Mount Isa faced many hardships. The lack of water, remoteness, the summer heat, high costs and scarcity of essential items made life extremely difficult.Despite these hardships, the pioneers endured to create a city that has attracted people from all around the world.

July 21, 2011 - Posted by Luxxys Lovely Lived Life | Uncategorized