Though, there are towns in NSW, where a great percentage of the town is employed in minining and related industries.

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@ajarnjenny wrote:

Though, there are towns in NSW, where a great percentage of the town is employed in minining and related industries.

 

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Which pales into insignificance for the majority of towns in NSW where the greater percentage is involved in the

Agriculture industry and related industries

Industry sector of employment

Here is a good???? example of antimony mining in NSW regional areas that occurs to the dteriment of 100,000s of

hectares of agricultural land

Hillgrove

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillgrove,_New_South_Wales

http://saveourmacleayriver.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Flyer_Hillgrove-Antimony-Mine_Update-Ju...

While the biggest producer of jobs is Tourism or ecotourism to put it more bluntly..... more sooner than later the mining

will bugger that up....come and have a look.... while you can.... before the rest disappears

http://www.lockthenambuccavalley.com.au/the_legacy_of_antimony_mining

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxley_Wild_Rivers_National_Park

Oxley Wild Rivers National Park is in New South Wales, Australia, 445 kilometres north of Sydney and is named in memory of the Australian explorer John Oxley, who passed through the area in 1818. The park covers 145,000 ha,[1] being one of the largest national parks in NSW.

The Park is part of the Hastings-Macleay Group of the World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia inscribed in 1986 and added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2007.

The Oxley Wild Rivers National Park (OWRNP) was World Heritage listed in recognition of the extensive dry rainforest that occurs within the park, and the associated rich biodiversity that includes several rare or threatened plants and animals. There are at least 14 waterfalls in the park.[2]

Google

Apsley Gorge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollomombi_Falls

Wollomombi Falls (pronounced 'walla mom bee'), from an Aboriginal word, are located in the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, 40 km due east of Armidale, New South Wales and 1 km off the Waterfall Way.

At one time they were believed to be the tallest in Australia. However, recent geographical revisions place them at second or third tallest, depending on the source, after Tin Mine Falls (New South Wales) and Wallaman Falls (near Ingham, Queensland). The Chandler Falls are located to the right of the Wollomombi Falls when viewed from the main lookout. The Wollomombi Falls are formed from the Wollomombi River and the Chandler Falls are formed by the Chandler River. The Wollomomobi Falls joins the Chandler river at the base of the gorge. The rivers Chandler River is itself a tributary of the Macleay River.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/water-issues/mines-toxic-flow-gives-river-users-a-scare-20111021-1...

A PLUME of toxic pollution from an old antimony mine appears to have killed fish for dozens of kilometres along the Macleay River in northern NSW.

The state government said there was no increased health risk because the contamination from the Hillgrove mine, east of Armidale, was diluted, but it has been ringing residents along the river as a precaution to tell them not to drink the water.

People living near the river and a tributary called Bakers Creek have found dead catfish, bass and shellfish, following recent heavy rain that caused a storage pond at the mine to overflow.

An investigation by the Environment Protection Authority began in August, and it estimates 900,000 litres of contaminated water entered the river when the storage pond overflowed.

Singleton ...another fine example of NSW mining???? cough... cough

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1884352/pollution-link-to-cancer/

Nov. 4, 2013,

HUNTER communities are demanding the state government strengthen air pollution controls after the World Health Organisation’s specialist cancer agency ruled outdoor air pollution is carcinogenic to humans.

The Upper Hunter air quality monitoring network has issued 77 alerts for poor air quality since October 1, including four yesterday.

The Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand will meet in Singleton next week   to discuss new information about air pollution and health, including the new report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.