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I have been to Mt Morgan, a short drive from Rockhampton Qld. and tours are available of the old mine.

Especially interesting is a sugarloaf mountain you are taken to a few minutes drive from the mine and a
short stroll to a 20ft entrance of a cavern dug out by man to collect the clay laying under a lava cap,
the clay was used to build all the chimneys and office blocks and more,in fact made many thousands of bricks.
Once inside the mountain, you become aware of the honeycomb you are in, with several more openings being
seen as you stand centre inside. Then the guide shines a torch to the ceiling and you are able to see Dinosaur
footprints step by step moulded/imprinted down from the ceiling, the lava having filled over the clay pan and
solidified. Looking out from one of the other entrances one gets to see a vast panorama of openness and a few
hundred meters as the stone falls down to the township,... so if this was a clay pan and lava ran across it,
surely that was the land surface at the time, ...im talking many cubic miles of erosion, now gone, amazing.
Dammit, just googled and found out,as of last year, tours to the footprints are no more, sad.


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Anyhows, just thought i'd throw this old pictorial up of Mt. Morgan in 1939. I know its not NZ. but worth a look i thought.
ps. does take awhile to load.

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/85272

regards, picknshuffle.

Edited by user Sunday, 12 May 2013 7:29:50 PM(UTC)  | Reason: 1939