Tour Information:

Mount Morgan is a quaint, historic town with a population of around 3, 000, nestled in the foot of the Dee Ranges. The old mine still dominates the landscape overlooking the town and the Dee River giving an eerie appearance from a time long ago. TMC Tours offer the best experience for touring Mount Morgan- viewing its present, and discovering its past.

TMC Tours stands for Town, Mine and Caves, and this is the journey of each tour - viewing the present , and discovering the past of Mount Morgan's township, Mine site and Manmade Fire Clay Caverns. Board our air conditioned bus, or have our experienced guides join your private coach.

Our accredited tour guides deliver professional commentary and ensure our strategically selected stop offs are promoted for the best experience. Each tour ensures you will Discover and experience:

The Township:

• Historic buildings and sites
• Panoramic views from heritage mine and town
• Suspension Bridge over the Dee River

The Gold Mine:

The mine site reveals yesterday's mining methodology from grand old buildings, famous land marks to 100 year old equipment. The mine area today displays the many environmental challenges underway to manage the acid mine drainage and revegetation attempts over the site and the adjacent Dee River.

• The heritage gold mine buildings and early mining equipment
• The Big Stack- Australia 's tallest free standing chimney
• Michael Durrant's World of Fossils Display
• The Open Cut Pit and Government rehabilitation projects

The Fire Clay Caverns:

We regret to advise you that access to the Fireclay Caverns have been closed until further notice.

• Massive Fireclay Caverns dug by hand 100 years ago
• Home to the best examples of 195 million year old, early Jurassic Dinosaur trackways in Australia - over 300 Jurassic Dinosaur Prints
• Close up viewing of dinosaur footprints from special constructed platforms
• Home to small species of bat colonies

Tour Times:

General Tours depart from the public bus shelter in the business centre of Mount Morgan, situated in Morgan Street just off the highway at 10:30 am and 1:00pm daily (bookings required - Operations subject to bookings in off season.

TMC also welcome group tours in private coaches specializing in school excursions; we can adapt our tour to suit your special needs. Click here for further information for school excursions.

Further details:

• Arrangements can be made for tour variation and visitation to other tourist attractions in the area.
• Enclosed footwear is required on the mine site.
• Cameras are permitted.
• Off season tour operations may be subject to bookings.
• Areas restricted in wet weather.
• Group pick ups from Rockhampton and special arrangements for day trips.

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