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Definitely not 1919. 4 years before the discovery. Mineside looking South West. In the Foreground is O'Doherty Shaft into the Black Rock Orebody. This was the shaft that 3 miners were injured, 1927, and the first medical evacuation by an aircraft in Australia. This proved to the A.I.M. that medical evacuations were possible. The first evacuation was May 1928 by A.I.M. which later become RFDS. OK, back to the image. This is late 1929 or early 1930. One tradesmen Dormitory is completed, tin sheds, Known as "Ranches" still erected for temporary accommodation, Staff accommodation and MIM employee housing under construction.

Mount Isa, QLD Famous silver-lead-zinc mining town known as the 'Oasis of the Outback'. Origin of Name John Campbell Miles, who found the deposits of silver, lead and zinc which lead to the formation of Mount Isa, named the settlement in 1923 after a Western Australian goldmine at Mount Ida. He never explained why he changed "Ida" to "Isa". History * Prior to European settlement the area was occupied by the Kalkadoon First Nations people. * The Kalkadoon First Nations people resisted the arrival of pastoralists in the 1870s and early 1880s. * The First Nations people's resistance ended when native police and white settlers retaliated with a bloody massacre in 1884. * In February 1923 vast silver-lead-zinc deposits were discovered by the prospector John Campbell Miles. * Mount Isa Mines Ltd was formed in 1924. * By 1925 Mount Isa Mines Ltd had taken over all the leases to the field. * The railway arrived from Townsville in 1929. * By 1929 Mount Isa Mines Ltd owned 370 ha in the area. For more info chack the source: www.aussietowns.com.au/town/mount-isa-qld

Newmarket: 5km north-west, originally known as The THicks Real Estate Mile Scrub due to its distance from the city, it was named when new cattle saleyards (1877-1931) were opened at the corner of Enoggera and Newmarket roads, replacing the older yards between Roma and Albert streets. Source: hicksrealestate.com.au/secret-history-brisbanes-suburbs-z/

Gladstone was originally known as Port Curtis, which was named by Matthew Flinders in 1802 after Sir Roger Curtis who had been Commandant at the Cape of Good Hope when he had called there for victuals and resupply. Port Curtis enjoyed a brief three months of temporary settlement as the administrative centre of the colony of North Australia (1847). George Barney (Barney's Point, Gladstone) commanded the settlement but a change of government in England led to its disbandment. Within a few years pastoral occupation of the hinterland brought about pressure for the port to be a livestock shipping outlet. In 1853 the town of Gladstone was surveyed and the first sale of town and suburban allotments took place the following year. Gladstone served well as a harbor, but the absence of plentiful water and agricultural land hindered its development. A gold rush at nearby Canoona (1858) then overshadowed Gladstone for a period. Although declared a municipality in 1863, Gladstone's growth was slow: a customs house was erected in 1860, the first school in 1864, a Presbyterian church in 1869 and Catholic and Church of England churches in 1874. Gladstone's wharves were at Auckland Point (named after the ship Lord Auckland that brought the first European settlers in 1847), where Auckland Inlet enters Port Curtis. The short waterway involved navigating a strait that was obstructed by submerged rock and passable only at high tide. Intermittent blasting and dredging went on until the 1890s in an attempt to improve access through the passage, with less than adequate results. Funds were spent on alternative harbors at Port Alma and Rockhampton, leaving Gladstone's population convinced they were being unfairly overlooked. Gladstone remained convinced that it had the best potential shipping harbour in central Queensland. The state government appointed the Gladstone Harbour Board in 1914, and the town formed its own Gladstone Harbour League to lobby the Railways minister for fairer haulage rates and for freight from surrounding shires. Progress was slow, and the town's economic mainstays remained the Port Curtis dairy factory (which achieved maximum production during the 1940s-50s) and the meat works. Tourism was still a distant prospect, although Heron Island emerged as a local holiday destination in the 1930s. Flying boats, bound for Singapore and connections to England called at Auckland Inlet from 1935 and a land aerodrome, jointly backed by Gladstone and Calliope Shire, opened in 1956. Source: www.queenslandplaces.com.au/gladstone