Mt Mulligan is an old miners town in the Mareeba shire. 160 kilometres
west of Cairns.
From Dimbulah it is a good 1.5 hours drive on a dirt road but
the trip is well worth it.
The road may be dirt but is is drive-able for all types of cars, No caravan.
Would not use this road if it had rained. (red bull dust) sink to your axles.
The mine of Mt Mulligan is now closed after a
series of explosions at 9:25am on September 19, 1921 took the lives of
75 coal miners working in the then-bustling township.
We sent a good couple of hours just wondering through the town which is marked with small metal signs saying where each store or house was. There are some machinery and mining items around still but most are just concrete slabs.
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