From Gold Mountain That Built British Petroleum to a Poisoned Pit: The Rise and Fall of Mount Morgan

From Gold Mountain That Built British Petroleum to a Poisoned Pit: The Rise and Fall of Mount Morgan 262 tonnes of gold came out of one hill near Rockhampton. Mount Morgan wasn't just a mine. It was the richest gold mine in the world, where 3,514 people lived under a mountain being carried away. An oil company. A Nobel Prize. A poisoned river. But in 1889 William Knox D'Arcy sailed for England with £6 million. The brothers who found the hill had sold it for £93,000. In the mid-1920s fire got into the workings, and the company flooded its own mine. Today, there is no mountain. There is a hole 300 metres deep holding 43 metres of acid water. This is the story of how everything that hill was worth left the country, and everything it cost stayed. This is not just the story of Mount Morgan. It's the story of who inherits the hole when money leaves. #MountMorgan #MountMorganMine #AbandonedFactories #LostFactories #IndustrialDecline #AustralianManufacturing