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Mount Isa is a reasonably affluent district. The largest industry in the city is the Mount Isa Mines, a source of lead, copper, silver and zinc. Cattle grazing and tourism are other industries of note. In the 2021 census, the City of Mount Isa had a population of 18,727 people. [1]
The Mount Isa Education and Training Precinct campus is an amalgamation of Kalkadoon State High School and Mount Isa State High School to form Spinifex State College Precinct. [ 56 ] Mount Isa is also home to the School of the Air , a unique-to-Australia way of schooling isolated students in Australia's vast lightly populated country areas.
The Selwyn Range (also known as the Isa Highlands) is a rugged mountain range near Mount Isa and Cloncurry in north-west Queensland, Australia, composed largely of Proterozoic metamorphic rocks. It is drained in the north by the Williams and Fullarton rivers , which run into the Gulf of Carpentaria , and in the south by the McKinlay River and ...
The river is dammed near Mount Isa to form Lake Moondarra. Other storage facilities in the catchment include Julius Dam, East Leichhardt Dam and Rifle Creek Dam. [3] Around 50 kilometres (31 mi) upstream from its mouth are the Leichhardt Falls. As well as Mount Isa, the small community of Kajabbi is located on the river.
It is located 260 kilometres northwest of Mount Isa. Early history. Indigenous people have lived in the Barkly region for thousands of years.
VEW-8 Kalgoorlie opened on 18 June 1971 and ITQ-8 Mount Isa commenced on 11 September 1971 before television reached the Northern Territory on 11 November 1971 with the launch of NTD-8 Darwin. The last regional stations to launch were GSW-9 Albany (a relay of BTW-3 Bunbury) on 29 August 1974, RTS-5A Loxton on 26 November 1976 and GTW-11 ...
The Mount Isa City Council operates a Civic Centre including a public library and park at 23 West Street (It is officially within Miles End but can only be accessed from Mount Isa City as this area is on the eastern side of the Leichhardt River, while the rest of the suburb is on the western side.
Mount Isa Mines, showing the acid plant stack (white, far left), copper smelter stack (red and white stripes, middle stack) and lead smelter stack (right stack). 6.1 million tonnes copper ore with 3.3% copper; 4.6 million tonnes silver-lead-zinc ore with 154g/t silver 5.4% lead 6,5% zinc (1986) [citation needed]