Weipa and Lockhart River
May 25th 2007 The following day we traveled out to Weipa the road greatly improving due to its up-keep by the Comalco mine. We joined a mine tour the following day through the bauxite mining process (which involves taking off the top soil, loading 1-9 metres of ore into trucks and then onto ships finishing with land rehabilitation that somehow overcomes a decline in altitude of up to 9m) and took plenty of pho
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