Qualla: Century Mine https://qualla.com/century-mine en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Century Mine https://qualla.com/century-mine Century Mine: Introduction https://qualla.com/century-mine/ Somewhere beneath the spinifex and dry creek beds of north-west Queensland, a pipe just thirty centimetres wide is pushing zinc toward the ocean. It runs 304 kilometres, buried out of sight, from the old open pit at Lawn Hill to the port of Karumba on the Gulf of Carpentaria. A single pump station at the mine end pressurises the line and shoots batches of metal slurry across the savanna - the longest single-pump-station slurry pipeline anywhere in the world. Century is mostly a quiet place now, its giant pit filling with water, but the metal keeps flowing.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/h/d/t/century-mine-wp/rhdt-century-mine-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Century Mine: A Body of Ore Ten Years in the Waiting https://qualla.com/century-mine/ The story begins with a discovery. In 1990, geologists working for CRA Limited identified a massive zinc deposit in the country around Lawn Hill, 250 kilometres north-west of Mount Isa. It was enormous - one of the great zinc-lead-silver orebodies of the world. But finding it and...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/h/d/t/century-mine-wp/rhdt-century-mine-a-body-of-ore-ten-years-in-the-waiting.mp3 0:06 2 full Century Mine: This Is Waanyi Country https://qualla.com/century-mine/ The ore sat in the traditional country of the Waanyi people, and that fact shaped everything. In May 1997, before the first blast, the Gulf Communities Agreement was signed between the Waanyi, Mingginda, Gkuthaarn and Kukatj native title groups, the State of Queensland and the mi...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/h/d/t/century-mine-wp/rhdt-century-mine-the-long-pipe-to-the-sea.mp3 0:06 4 full Century Mine: Mining the Mine's Own Waste https://qualla.com/century-mine/ Sixteen years of milling had left behind a vast field of tailings - the fine sand discarded after the valuable metal was extracted. Old processing left a lot of zinc still locked inside it. In 2018, New Century Resources restarted the operation with a different idea: instead of d...

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