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View inside the MacDonnell Range Reef Mines. If you can see the little boomerang shape in the middle upper third, that's a bat I suprised!
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This is terribly unclear, but here's the bat (and his shadow). Can you make him out? He's flying nearly vertical.
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Overview of the MacDonnell Range Reef mines, which were worked at least by 1892. Six men were working it in Jan 1896, but it was probably abandoned around 1898, then is mentioned again in 1903. Up to 1908 it produced 248 oz (7.7kg) of gold.
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Crossroads Cemetary. A very lonely place to be buried. Although only the grave in the walled compound has a name, someone knows who is buried here - one grave has an old necklace hung on the cross, another has a number of rocks (all quartz) that have been set on the stone - a common practice of some religions, I think, is to leave a stone on the grave each time you visit.
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After the Crossroads, we decided to continue on to the White Range cemetery. This is a view we stopped to admire on the way.
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White Range Cemetery. Most of the folks buried here died in the late 1800's.
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A very short-lived mine: The White Range Open-cut Mine was commissioned in 1990 and closed in 1991. There's a big truck there, but apparently all that's happening over there is waste dumps being processed.
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A roundhouse built near Joker Gorge and the Joker Mine. Although it is so well constructed that it has survived over 100 years, nobody seems to know what it's purpose was. The Joker Mine seems to have been started in 1899, and had produced 840g of gold by 1908.
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Joker Gorge. Unfortunately it's not an impressive photo, because of the flat light. It's a narrow, extremely rocky gorge that goes up and twists around quite a bit. We heard budgies (parakeets) here, but couldn't spot them.
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Back at the crossroads, this is an old bakehouse. An attempt was made to create a township here, but as the gold fields declined, it never happened. There was a hotel (the Glencoe) kitty-corner to the bakehouse, but very little besides evidence of a foundation remains.
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Map of the Artlunga area. We came and went the same way, up the Ross Highway and past the Visitor Centre. Here you can see where many of the sites we visited are.
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A sign at the crossroads: The long way back to Alice Springs.
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Another family group of Brumbies we saw just short of the visitors centre.
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