Mary Kathleen’s uranium town still had 212 homes when its mine closed in 1982; the company settlement was dismantled and ...
For a town to simply vanish is quite disturbing. Mary Kathleen, situated in the Selwyn Range of outback Queensland, was a mining settlement with schools, a movie theatre, a golf course and numerous homes. Geologists A.D. McKay and Y. Miezitis, in a mineral …