This fact would just about be enough to have the area as an historic
site, as the Manhattan Project was the scientific event that most
greatly changed the world. The Mount Painter - Mount Gee is an unique
mineralogical province which deserves to be protected. Protection of
unique geological/mineralogical sites is a growing movement. Even
China is considering World Heritage protection for the 3 Rivers area
in the south (perhaps to make up for the 3 Gorges Dam fiasco), so
perhaps it is a chance for Australia to take the lead.
Carl Clifford
On 02/04/2008, at 2:15 PM, Ian May wrote:
Mount Gee is part of the geological area known as Mount Painter
province, ....... where limited amounts of uranium were extracted for
the Manhattan Project during the Second World War.
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