Early 2000's - Saint Barbara extracts the last dregs of goodness...

Early 2000's - Saint Barbara extracts the last dregs of goodness out of the Meekatharra carcass and then shuffles off to suck the last marrow from Sons of Gwalia's bones.

Mid 2000's - Mercator come along with visions of finding new orebodies in Meeka. Soon, that vision fades and they end up trying to mine old exhausted deposits, nearly undercut the Gt Northern Highway and fail miserably.

Late 2000's - Reed come along and hope that optimism will triumph over experience and, er ... fail miserably.

Fast forward to 2015 and what's the bet that some bunch of deluded asses will be IPO'ing this sorry sack of sh1t to the next crowd of hapless fools.

Sorry for all those that lost out on this one. I managed to avoid it, having been involved in one of the earlier doomed enterprises there. I thought the Diggers and Dealers preso was a particularly cruel attempt at lifting everyone's expectations