Return to Roxby Downs (Paperback)

Paperback. John Showers first went to Roxby Downs when it was a lonely, isolated sheep station a long day's drive on rough bush tracks from Port Augusta and civilisation. Thirty years later, as a civil engineer with Western Mining Corporation, he returned and was intimately involved in establishing the infrastructure for the development of the Olympic Dam uranium mine and the new township of Roxby Downs. Return to Roxby Downs covers his participation in both these periods. Showers first went to Roxby Downs when it was an isolated sheep station a long day's drive on rough bush tracks from Port Augusta and civilisation. 30 years later he returned and was intimately involved in establishing the infrastructure for the development of the Olympic Dam uranium mine. This book covers his participation in both these periods. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.