In the late 1880s, Mt Lyell Copper Mine was established at Queenstown. Between 1916 and 1994 the ore pre-concentration process adopted by the mine discharged an estimated 97 million tonnes of mine tailings, 45 million tonnes of smelter slag and 10 million tonnes of top soil into the Queen River
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