OUR BIG TRIP

MARY & OLI GOING AROUND AUSTRALIA
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13 August 2007, Monday

Continuation of Ranger Uranium Mine Tour...
Size comparison - on the left is a Toyota pick-up truck,
he he he small...
Size comparison - the open pit is quite big, more than a
100 m deep.
Tour Group - looking stupid...
90 t of gravel being driven up the pit to a Gamma ray
detector which will decide in which pile the gravel goes.
Drilling on the side of the pit to see how much Uranium
is here. They spend about $7 Mil. on the drilling.
Great feeling when you enter the site, see the safety
record and just behind the sign two people come
walking in strange looking suits???????????????
So what, just training or reality -
hmmm radioactive desaster
happening? The tour guide was
always telling us how good the
nuclear industry is and that the
electricity is great, etc. etc. - we
might believe it, but the rest of the
Aussies?
Sulphur (Yellow) to make acid to get
the Uranium out of the ore. In front of
it three brand new Road Trains with
sulphuric acid on board - $3 Mil. each
for the Road Train with all the safety
gear on board to transport acid.
Main crusher and sulphur - soon the 25 year old plant to
make acid will close and the acid will only be
transported by Road Train.
30 t of gravel can be lifted with this one...
Three scoops of 30 t for this 90 t loader...
Panoramic view of the Open Pit, in the background the Kakadu Sandstone Escarpment - how does that mix?
The only real panoramic view of the inside plant complex - could not take a lot of photos from the bus.