Ranger - Image Library

Ranger - Image Library

Aerial view of the Ranger site BEFORE mining began (from 2^ND Fox Report).
Note how DAMN CLOSE the Pit #3 is to Magela Creek..

¹ - Aerial extent of the Ranger site as of July 1999.
Note how DAMN CLOSE the Pit #3 is to Magela Creek..

² - The Ranger site with sacred Mt Brockman in the background (left).
Note that Ranger is in the MIDDLE OF THE MAGELA WETLANDS SYSTEM.

³ - Another aerial view of the Ranger site. ENuFF DAMAGE!!!

⁴ - For some bizarre reason, ERA were blasting right at the time that the 1:30 afternoon tourist bus was to arrive at the Pit #3 viewing platform. Hardly appropriate for visitors to a World Heritage area, let alone any regard for public safety form exploding radioactive rocks....

⁵ - Panoramic view of Pit #3 open cut. Radioactive dust blew freely across into neighbouring Jabiru and Kakadu this day.

⁶ - View of the road to/from Pit #3. In the background is the Ranger processing mill, with the radiation detectors for the ore trucks in the foreground right. Yum that dust! Pitooey!

⁷ - What does a multi-national mining company of the dodgiest pedigree do with a whopping big toxic leak-like-a-sieve-hole in the middle of World Heritage listed wetlands (ie - mined out Pit #1) ? Easy - you dump even more toxic radioactive tailings in there and don't even line the hole with clay to prevent contamination of surrounding groundwater!!! (See extra note)

⁸ - During the 1998/99 Wet Season, the level of uranium contamination of water discharging uncontrolled from the Ranger site from Retention Pond #1 (RP1) was almost 100 times higher than usual. All ERA did was to sandbag the spillway - Woohoo. Goodonyaz. Pathetic really.

⁹ - During the 1999/2000 Wet Season, the level of uranium contamination of water discharging uncontrolled from the Ranger site from Retention Pond #1 (RP1) was STILL 50 times higher than usual. At least this year placed a more permanent barrier on the dam of RP1, but the uranium still leaks through to the Magela Wetlands. Woohoo. Goodonyaz. Even more pathetic really.

¹⁰ - Pit #1 during the 1999/2000 Wet Season. Notice the instability of much of the pit walls, the enormous volume of water inside the pit, the tailings discharging into it.....

¹¹ - Pit #3 during the 1999/2000 Wet Season. Notice the enormous volume of water inside the pit and more pouring in.....

¹¹ - Aerial Photo of the Ranger project, presumably early 1999. (ERA Annual Report 1999)

Aerial side view of the Ranger mine site.

Aerial view of the Ranger mine site, 1994-95.

Aerial view of the extent of the deep open cut, October 1993.

View of the extent of the deep open cut.
(Office of the Supervising Scientist 1993-994 Annual Report).

Kakadu
Map Detailed geographic map of the Kakadu region, link to map prepared by ANAWA.
(Adapted from the Office of the Supervising Scientist 1993-994 Annual Report).

Ranger
Site Map Detailed site map of Ranger, link to map prepared by ANAWA.
(Adapted from ERA Ranger Mine - Environmental Annual Report 1999).

Lynx ][ Climate graph of the Ranger region of Kakadu.

Notes : Photos 1 to 8 all taken July 21, 1999. Photos 9 to 11 all taken March 13-14, 2000. Credit to SEA-US Inc.
⁷ - This is serious - ERA failed to line their new tailings dump in Pit 1. Not even the most engineered hazardous waste landfill in Melbourne with several engineered layered barriers (eg. proposed and rejected Werribee dump) could convince people it was safe, let alone NO LINING for a RADIOACTIVE TAILINGS DAM in the middle of World Heritage wetlands.
Page last updated December 16, 2000.

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	Aerial view of the Ranger site BEFORE mining began (from 2^ND Fox Report). Note how DAMN CLOSE the Pit #3 is to Magela Creek..
	¹ - Aerial extent of the Ranger site as of July 1999. Note how DAMN CLOSE the Pit #3 is to Magela Creek..
	² - The Ranger site with sacred Mt Brockman in the background (left). Note that *Ranger is in the MIDDLE OF THE MAGELA WETLANDS SYSTEM*.
	³ - Another aerial view of the Ranger site. ENuFF DAMAGE!!!
	⁴ - For some bizarre reason, ERA were blasting right at the time that the 1:30 afternoon tourist bus was to arrive at the Pit #3 viewing platform. Hardly appropriate for visitors to a World Heritage area, let alone any regard for public safety form exploding radioactive rocks....
	⁵ - Panoramic view of Pit #3 open cut. Radioactive dust blew freely across into neighbouring Jabiru and Kakadu this day.
	⁶ - View of the road to/from Pit #3. In the background is the Ranger processing mill, with the radiation detectors for the ore trucks in the foreground right. Yum that dust! Pitooey!
	⁷ - What does a multi-national mining company of the dodgiest pedigree do with a whopping big toxic leak-like-a-sieve-hole in the middle of World Heritage listed wetlands (ie - mined out Pit #1) ? Easy - you dump even more toxic radioactive tailings in there and don't even line the hole with clay to prevent contamination of surrounding groundwater!!! (See extra note)
	⁸ - During the 1998/99 Wet Season, the level of uranium contamination of water discharging uncontrolled from the Ranger site from Retention Pond #1 (RP1) was almost 100 times higher than usual. All ERA did was to sandbag the spillway - Woohoo. Goodonyaz. Pathetic really.
	⁹ - During the 1999/2000 Wet Season, the level of uranium contamination of water discharging uncontrolled from the Ranger site from Retention Pond #1 (RP1) was STILL 50 times higher than usual. At least this year placed a more permanent barrier on the dam of RP1, but the uranium still leaks through to the Magela Wetlands. Woohoo. Goodonyaz. Even more pathetic really.
	¹⁰ - Pit #1 during the 1999/2000 Wet Season. Notice the instability of much of the pit walls, the enormous volume of water inside the pit, the tailings discharging into it.....
	¹¹ - Pit #3 during the 1999/2000 Wet Season. Notice the enormous volume of water inside the pit and more pouring in.....
	¹¹ - Aerial Photo of the Ranger project, presumably early 1999. (ERA Annual Report 1999)
	Aerial side view of the Ranger mine site.
	Aerial view of the Ranger mine site, 1994-95.
	Aerial view of the extent of the deep open cut, October 1993.
	View of the extent of the deep open cut. (Office of the Supervising Scientist 1993-994 Annual Report).
Kakadu Map	Detailed geographic map of the Kakadu region, link to map prepared by ANAWA. (Adapted from the Office of the Supervising Scientist 1993-994 Annual Report).
Ranger Site Map	Detailed site map of Ranger, link to map prepared by ANAWA. (Adapted from ERA Ranger Mine - Environmental Annual Report 1999).
Lynx ][	Climate graph of the Ranger region of Kakadu.

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