Where Is Mt Isa?
Where Is Mt Isa?Answer: The Queensland mining town of Mt Isa, the western world’s biggest silver and lead producer, lies south of the Gulf of Carpentaria and west of the coastal city of Townsville. It’s a true Outback town in its sense of remoteness (imagine Coober Pedy in South Australia, another mining town) but a melting pot nonetheless of various ethnic groups drawn to the attraction of work at the mines. Aside from silver and lead, Mt Isa also has rich deposits of copper and zinc. Fossil deposits Another Mt Isa claim to fame is the existence of fossil deposits in the region, more particularly at Riversleigh, an inscribed United Nations World Heritage area, some 250 kilometres nort
