Halls Creek
More on sentinel chooks
Courtesy Atlanta Commissioner Emma L Darnell
Sentinel chickens are our early warning system for mosquito diseases.
Tanami Desert: Partners to develop gold prospect.
ABM Resources and Tanami Gold have agreed to jointly investigate a promising gold prospect near Coyote Mine.
If found to be economic, the companies will then develop a mine and process the ore.
The gold prospect, called Old Pirate, is in the Tanami Desert west of the NT border.
ABN Newswire [read this story]
Halls Creek: $100 fines for overusing sprinklers
The Water Corporation reminds Halls Creek residents the will cop a $100 fine if they use sprinklers more than twice a week.
Other North-West residents may water every second day.
You can read a media release here:
Turkey Creek: Events from our violent past
Here are three 1908 newspaper clippings telling part of a story of frontier violence.
This first is from a Western Australian country newspaper:
Ashburton Guardian 10 September 1908 - courtesy National Library of New Zealand
History: The Inland Mission hospitals in 1972
This is a feature article about the Inland Mission nurses at two Kimberley towns from a 1972 newspaper.
Some readers will be familiar with their names: Helen McKay, Megan Kerr, Eleanor Roberts and Cherrill Hopkins at Fitzroy Crossing; and Raylee Finlen, Michele Meehan and Jean McConaghy at Halls Creek.
Sydney Morning Herald [read this story]
Balgo and Halls Creek: Police officer ‘trapped in body’
Courtesy Atlanta Commissioner Emma L Darnell
A Police Officer stricken with a mosquito-borne virus is “trapped in his own body” his partner said.
Constable Ryan Marron is believed to have contracted Murray Valley Encephalitis while working in Balgo for two weeks.
The West Australian [read this story]
Halls Creek: More on the rare earths project
The Cummins Range rare earths project is located about 120km south-east of Halls Creek.
This video is a presentation from the managing director of Kimberley Rare Earths, which owns the project.
ABN Newswire [go to video]
Halls Creek: Gold project changes hands
The owners of a gold project near Halls Creek have sold it with no cash changing hands.
Northern Star agreed to take $200,000 worth of Bulletin Resources shares to settle the deal for the Golden Crown project.
Mineweb [read this story]
Golden Crown is located about 20km east of Halls Creek.
Bulletin Resources, the new owner, is developing another gold project nearby at Nicholson’s Find on Lamboo Station.
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