Bigger, better rock library

THE Queensland government is spending $550,000 to expand and upgrade the Mount Isa drill core facility to make it easier for explorers to unearth the next big mining prospect in the state’s North West minerals province.

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The John Campbell Miles core drill facility in the Kalkadoon Industrial Estate near the airport is getting a $550,000 upgrade

The core library houses samples collected over the past 130 years by explorers, state government drilling programs and mining industry-government collaborations from the richest deposits in the region