A picture in time: Rum Jungle, Australia's first large uranium mine

The Northern Territory mine, opened in 1954 to help supply the UK and US atomic weapons programs, has left a huge pollution problemOn 17 September 1954 the Rum Jungle uranium mine, then the largest in Australia, was officially opened.The mine, just over 100km south of Darwin along the eastern branch of the Finniss River, would operate for 17 years until it was deemed to be no longer economically viable and closed down, leaving a toxic environmental legacy that is still to be resolved. Continue reading...