Elevated conveyor belts would carry ore from the pit across these mulga scrublands to a massive crusher.

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Growing up, Namatjira made sketches of scenes around him and later made images for mulga wood plaques.

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The NSW national parks and wildlife service plans to revive what it calls two natural bio-regions: the property's red soil mulga lands, and grey soil Darling riverine plains.

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