Dramatic Flooded Mine “Rescue” in Central QLD (Australia)

Comment:  Uranium open pit mining is plan at Coles Hill, VA, look at the pictures below, is this VA's future when we have a hurricane or huge rainstorms!  Demand our leaders to ban uranium mining and milling now!

Agmates Editor Steve Truman writes:

Linda Hewitt in her article Central QLD Flood Devastation in Pictures touched on the devastation the flooding has caused in central Queensland not only to the rural but also the mining industries.

Malcolm Flohr principal of private Agent Australian Livestock in Clermont has sent Agmates these photos of a dramatic mine “rescue” at a flooded open cut coal mine just outside of Middlemount.

Flying over the flooded mine

These huge open cut pits are full to the top

You can just see the tops of the huge mine You can just see the tops of the huge mine machinery poking out of the water. Notice the Excavator in the top left of the picture.

Tops of huge mine hall dump trucks, these are the ones that a Toyota 4 wheel drive comes about half way up the wheel.

Believe it or not there is a man in that machine who has started it and is trying to haul the machine out using the bucket to drag it toward the edge of the pit.

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