Tom Price

Tom Price is an interesting place. We took a tour of the Mount Tom Price Iron Ore Mine and were amazed by the scale of it all. The town was built and run by the mining company in the early 60s, and was only taken over by local government in the 80s. It was named after Thomas Price (no kidding..) who was an American working for Kaiser Steel that came over and saw the potential for mining there. The town has just over 5000 people in it, with 900 of them working in the mine full time. The bus tour drove through the whole processing plant and Charlie was v happy with his funny glasses...