Radium Hill

Radium Hill is a former minesite in South Australia which operated from 1906 until 1961. It was Australia's first uranium mine,^[2] years before the country's next major mines at Rum Jungle in the Northern Territory (opened in 1950), and the Mary Kathleen mine in Queensland (1958).^[3] The associated settlement which once housed up to 1,100 people is now a ghost town, largely abandoned and demolished. During its main period of production between 1954 and 1961 the mine produced nearly 1 million tonnes of davidite-bearing ore to produce about 860 tons of U₃O₈.^[4]

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