‘View from Yuendumu mining store’
HEAT 18, 2008
Frank Baarda’s office is a demountable in a yard filled with car bodies. Along an interior wall is a set of shelves lined with rock samples. As we talked I kept glancing at the shelves, noticing something new each time: a piece of smooth green stone with sharpened edges; a stone hatchet with a design painted on its worn wooden handle and bound with spinifex wax; transparent quartz; tube-shaped rock samples from underground, known as diamond drilling cores …