The Monument is a mining town in the locality of
Dajarra
Dajarra is a town and a locality in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. In the , Dajarra had a population of 191 people; 60.3% of the population are Indigenous.
Geography
Dajarra is in North West Queensland near the border with the ...
in the
Shire of Cloncurry
The Shire of Cloncurry is a Local government in Australia, local government area in North West Queensland, Australia. It covers an area of , and has existed as a local government entity since 1884. The major town and administrative centre of the ...
,
Queensland
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, Australia.
It is nicknamed Phosphate Hill.
History
The town was named by the by
Queensland Place Names Board
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on 1 October 1975.
[ The name refers to a nearby mountain, also called The Monument (), which has a rock pillar standing on the top of it.
The Monument State School opened on 15 March 1976 and then closed in December 1978. It reopened on 15 January 1982 and closed in December 1994.]
Economy
The town exists for workers at the IPL Phosphate
In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid. It most commonly means orthophosphate, a derivative of orthophosphoric acid .
The phosphate or orthophosphate ion is derived from phospho ...
Mine.
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Towns in Queensland
Shire of Cloncurry