Rainfall Extremes in Australia
Dorrigo in the upper Nymboida River catchment holding an impressive 2nd place for highest daily rainfall with 809.2 mm of rain falling in a 24 hour period.
Rainfall Extremes
04 March 2013
The biggest flood since 1954 for the Village of Nymboida
The biggest flood since 1954 for the Village of Nymboida reached 13.4 metres around 2:30 am Saturday morning 23rd February 2013. The water was across the Armidale Road up to the windows in the brick bus shelter.
That night people in Nymboida Village felt the ground shaking as the bulkhead of the No 2 tunnel of the Nymboida Hydro Power Station catastrophically failed.It was near the peak of the flood in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Water from the Nymboida River was gushing uncontrolled and created massive erosion. The Canoe Centre white water course was badly damaged. A high level bridge some kilometres further down stream destroyed. Water is still flowing uncontrolled 10 days later.
Authorities have made little or no comment whilst they are assessing the damage and possible mitigation. The main strategy appears to wait for the water to drop to a level that allows some access to the river and bulkhead.
The media has been eerily quiet despite the scale of the disaster. Even emergency evacuation warnings issued by the State Emergency Service have been ignored and can't be found on any media sites if one does a simple search.
Real-time water data: NSW Water Information
29 November 2011
Extent of NSW Floods 28 November 2011
The central north of NSW flooded again.
see link for a map.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39705878/Northern%20NSW%2027%20November%202011.jpeg
15 April 2011
13 April 2011
Expanded drilling announced for the upper Clarence Catchment
http://www.anchorresources.com/appendixes/original/AHR_ASX_Release_110411.pdf
exploration plans in the New England region of NSW including drilling programs at Bielsdown antimony project and the nearby Tyringham gold prospect.
06 April 2011
Generalversammlung des TTC
www.brullsen.de - Generalversammlung des TTC
Der TTC Brullsen
1. Eröffnung und Begrüßung
2. Feststellen der Beschlussfähigkeit
3. Vorlesen und Genehmigung des Protokolls der Generalversammlung von 2010
4. Jahresbericht des 1. Vorsitzenden
5. Jahresbericht der Mannschaften
6. Kassenbericht
6.1 Bericht der Kassenprüfer
7. Entlastung des Vorstandes
8. Wahlen
8.1 Wahl des 2. Vorsitzenden
8.2 Wahl des Kassierers
8.3 Wahl eines Kassenprüfers
9 Verschiedenes
17 March 2011
19 February 2011
20 January 2011
The Clarence River Flood on the 17th January. A rare cloud free day!
19 January 2011
Central- North New South Wales Floods
The southeast Queensland town of St George near the New South Wales border is braced for more flooding as the Balonne River peaks again.
Many properties would be isolated in the area of Lightning Ridge and roads could be expected to be impassable due to water over the road in many areas.
But this event may be less severe than the major inundations that occurred nearly two weeks ago.
The Balonne River is forecast to peak next week, lower than the 13.2 metres recorded a fortnight ago which resulted in damage to some homes.
The map shows areas subjected to flood water in shades of blue as of satellite imagery from the 18th January 2011. (CLICK on map to enlarge)
10 January 2011
Gold, copper & antimony mining proposed for the Blicks River & Bielsdown River areas west of Coffs Harbour
The group Anchor Resources promoting a copper, gold & antimony mining proposal for Blicks & Bielsdown area on their website:
http://www.anchorresources.com/
This has not been reported in the mainstream media or local news.
The group 'Dorrigo Environment Watch' will question the mining project at a meeting in Dorrigo on the 13th January 2011.
The Australia online Shares database says about Anchor Resources:
http://www.anchorresources.com/
This has not been reported in the mainstream media or local news.
The group 'Dorrigo Environment Watch' will question the mining project at a meeting in Dorrigo on the 13th January 2011.
The Australia online Shares database says about Anchor Resources:
'Anchor Resources is Sydney based and its experienced management team has considerable expertise and global experience in exploration, mining, finance and stockbroking. Its strategy is to identify mineral properties of high potential in which specific prospects can be quickly advanced in a cost effective manner. This includes attracting joint venturers to introduce specialist technical expertise and share risk.'
and further says:
'Company Update - following the listing of Anchor Resources on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in July 2007, exploration activities have accelerated with:
Bielsdown EL6388 – north of Dorrigo, NSW* 100% owned by Anchor Resources
* Wild Cattle Creek is an advanced antimony project with tungsten and gold credits
* Ten hole drilling program completed in August 2009 to expand the resource at depth and along strike
* 2009 JORC resource upgrade 880,000t at 2.0% Sb using a 0.5% Sb cutoff grade (contained metal 17,500t Sb) by SRK Consulting
* A further 12 hole drilling program was completed in the first half of 2010 to extend known mineralisation
* A resource update is currently underway
* Program to assess metallurgy and quantify demonstrated gold and tungsten credits
* A scoping study has commenced to evaluate the potential for a commercial mining operation
Blicks EL6465 – northwest of Dorrigo, NSW
* 100% owned by Anchor Resources
* Anchor Resources identified two immediate targets for drilling
* Targetting gold, copper and molybdenum in an intrusion related model
* Dundurrabin previous drilling includes 18.1m at 1.23% copper and 33.9m at 1.27% copper
* Tyringham previously drilled with substantial thicknesses of low grade gold mineralisation (up to 96m at 0.23g/t Au)
* Initial Anchor drilling (RC) at Dundurrabin and Tyringham completed mid 2008
The Thunderbolts Project - NSW
The Thunderbolts Project (EL 7184) is located 40km to the north-northeast of the Hillgrove mine or 95 km west of Coffs Harbour. The old Magword antimony mine is contained within this project. The vein/shear filling stibnite mineralisation was mined historically via underground shafts and adits with high antimony grades being achieved. Reports indicate that production between 1941-1969 was over 3,000t of antimony, with average grades around 20.5% Sb. An initial review of the exploration history indicates there has been very little exploration conducted in the area since 1972.
Other historic workings and deposits within the tenement area include the Allingham, Rock Abbey/Magdell, Abroi, Tregaire North, Sugarloaf and Antimony Gully antimony deposits, as well as the Faulkners gold deposit.'
If you are concerned contact your local environment watch group ask questions to your local state MP's. If you are an investor you know what to do but maybe you would like to think it over what mining these areas would mean to the environment and the people that live there.
08 December 2010
04 December 2010
@jurgenachilles, 4/12/10 10:51
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30 October 2010
Phyllantus microcladus
Amplify’d from jurgenachilles.amplify.com
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/e8ls
Phyllanthus microcladus a species at its known southern limit of distribution. http://amplify.com/u/e8kn
16 June 2010
Narrabri coal mining boom - despite 'dirty coal' debate
Whitehaven's A$350 million development of the Narrabri mine is due to begin first output in the middle of this year as coal prices soar in Asia
The Narrabri coal mine is set to produce about 700,000 metric tons a year in its initial production stage, rising to a planned 6 million tons in mid-2011. First-stage construction is almost complete, the company said last month.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-01/whitehaven-coal-says-new-mine-may-make-it-a-takeover-target.html
05 June 2010
Electropollution from mobiles: A Threat To Honey Bees?
Scientists from Punjab University in India have claimed that cell phone radiation could be a major factor for disappearance of honey bees, adding that the radiation interfered with the bee's navigation senses.
08 May 2010
NSW Flood March to April 2010
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feo4UJQ-diw&feature=youtube_gdata
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