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Flat White

Predators and parasites prowl the Bowen Basin 

28 June 2023

4:30 AM

28 June 2023

4:30 AM

After our great adventure helping Utah Development Co locate and measure their magnificent coal resources along the western edge of the Bowen Basin, Utah wanted to embark on metals exploration. Geologists were in great demand in those days so (against my wishes), they sent me to Brisbane to help them in metals exploration.

I soon decided this was not the job I wanted – I wanted to stay in coal or get a job like the investment analysis role I had held with Gold Fields in Sydney.

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