Some of Australia’s mines are many thousands of years older than most Australians realise…and enormously more colourful.
A spectacular and easily-accessed example sits in desert, circa 600 kilometres north of Adelaide, just outside a quasi-“ghost” town.
A formerly-important “railway town”, Lyndhurst saw its last train in 1980, but is still the crossroads for the Oodnadatta and Strzelecki Tracks
Click this to discover more about Lyndhurst and the nearby ochre cliffs, which humans had mined for umpteen thousand years before the railway briefly came and went.
Photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken at 2.26 pm on 08 June 2023.
A future, multiple-image post will be devoted to these ochre cliffs.