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History Of The Rum Jungle
In 1949, a deposit of uranium ore at Rum Jungle was discovered, approximately 100km south of Darwin in the Northern Territory. Open-cut mining began in 1954 and produced 3,530 tonnes of uranium oxide and 20,000 tonnes of copper concentrate. These large amounts of mining caused three (three) large pits and a waste dump at the site. Extracted uranium ores were crushed, grounded to a thin paste and added with sulfuric acid to separate the uranium ore from the waste rock. It was then formed into a precipitate (Uranium Oxide) by being added to an alkali. In 1971, the mine sit was closed, leaving the pits and waste dump as they were. The East Finnis River flowed through the mine site containing dangerous metals such as copper, manganese and zinc,
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