Mt Gordon Vacation Work Part 3

Again I ventured back to the Mt Gordon mine for another 9 days of fun....This time I did some test work in the lab, but after a few days, i was kinda bored of it...So i did some work for the OH&S department and audited safety systems around the plant. My audit on the safety showers & eye wash systems proved succesful, identifying major faults, and thus new procedures were put in place to make sure these systems were working in the case of an emergency. It made me feel like i was actually contributing to the minesite as a whole. In other aspects, i really looked forward to nightimes as almost every night we would have a verandah session with maybe 5 or 6 of us, and of course the cold beer. I have also uploaded some photos of the Mt Gordon mine, and the surrounding area around Gunpowder, they can be viewed here:

http://uqedu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=87936&l=f54b4&id=742020110

Mitch.

Mt Gordon Vacation Work: PART TWO!

I adventured back to the outback after a pretty cool christmas (although i had to fly back up here on Christmas day). This time was different though, this time i was working night shift. I can't say it was bad, i rather enjoyed it actually. It wasnt so hot, the flys were gone, and managed to have some enjoyable times with some of the younger guys that work here. I only had to work 8 shifts this time, and spent most of my time in the flotation circuit. This 8 days culminated with a large barbecue on thursday morning, a bin full of beer, a pool made of an old polytank, and the worst sunburn i have ever had. Lets just say the flight home on thursday afternoon was a very sleepy ocassion.

Mitch.