PLACE REPRESENTED: Middlemount, Queensland , Australia

ITEM: Keychain

NOTES: Middlemount is a mining town in Central Queensland, Australia. Hence the depiction of the dragline excavator. Middlemount, like many other mining towns in Queensland virtually sprung up overnight in the early 1980s. It services two large coal mines, Foxleigh and German Creek. At the 2011 census, Middlemount had a population of 1,914. It’s population, I suspect, is dependent of the fortunes of the mining industry. Maybe that’s why the image is framed in a horseshoe … for luck?  If solar or green energy become a easily accessible reality who knows what will happen to Middlemount, or Queensland for that matter.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s

MADE FROM: steel

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 9.5cm length overall