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Mount Mulligan

Mount Mulligan was a mining town in northern Queensland, Australia, the site of Queenslands worst mining disaster. It was a coal mining town from 1910 until 19 September 1921 when an underground explosion killed 75 miners (all the miners in the town). The mine closed, but reopened in 1923 and continued in production until 1957 when a hydro-electric scheme eliminated the need for the coal. The towns coal was mined from shafts dug into a Permian layer within the cliff face or escarpment of a large 18 kilometres x 6.5 kilometres free-standing conglomerate and sandstone massif (rising up to 400 metres above the township) known by the name given it by the small group of prospectors who first sighted it in 1874 while searching the Hodgkinson River for gold, under the leadership of James Venture Mulligan. The conglomerate and sandstone massif known to local Djungan aboriginal peoples as Ngarrabullgan was given James Mulligans surname. The name Mount Mulligan was later given to the township that grew in the shadows of the massifs escarpment. The area of the township itself remains gazetted as a township, but is now a ghost town, with a single cemetery, a single occupied residence, a single chimney stack, and the overgrown remains of the once busy mining operations and electricity generator

Photography by Mangiwau
Mount Mulligan

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© 2015 Michael Thirnbeck


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