Mount Morgan abandoned mine site brings environmentalists and farmers together

It is not often you hear environmentalists and farmers asking government to help out a mining company — but that is what is happening in central Queensland as a resources project hangs in the balance.

Local landholder Ian Scott with his mother at the Dee
 River where they saw dead fish during the uncontrolled
 overflow from the old gold mine in 2013.

Since 2014, Australian company Carbine Resources has been working on a proposal to pull copper, pyrite and gold tailings from one of Queensland's biggest abandoned mines.

Ian Scott lives downstream from the old Mount Morgan gold mine, near the Dee River at Wowan, south-west of Rockhampton.

Read the ABC News story by Emilia Terzon - “Mount Morgan abandoned mine site brings environmentalists and farmers together.”