Community

Morning Star Gold – Woods Point Community Liaison Group

Morning Star Gold is only too aware the impact their successful transition from explorer to mine developer may have on the local community and indeed the impact the Morning Star mine has had in shaping the township of Woods Point since the 1860s. MCO is keen to be a good community citizen.

In such a small town as Woods Point (population under 50 people) and the other tiny towns nearby such as Gaffney’s Creek, A1 Mine Settlement, Matlock and Saint Clair, a good community spirit and cooperation with the whole community is essential.

Morning Star is constantly looking for effective ways of enhancing our relationship with the Community. A Community Liaison Group was established comprising 7 members (3 MCO and 4 locals). This group meets bi-monthly at the Commercial Hotel in Woods Point over dinner to air a diverse range of views and to enable the Company to provide feed back to the Community on its progress and activities and to give the Community a voice in challenging or supporting those activities as the case may be.

Frances Scott chairs the Community Liaison Group and MCO’s Managing Director Nicholas Garling is also a member.

MCO is privileged to have the opportunity to sponsor the Woods Point Pictorial Museum, which has a pictorial history dating back to the early gold rushes in the Eastern Victorian Goldfields and to provide assistance in the production of the Quarterly Woods Point ‘Mountaineer’ Magazine (which can be viewed online here).

Morning Star Gold has also recently donated $1,000 towards the purchase of essential local safety equipment to be used by Victorian Police and Country Fire Authority members. In conjunction with the CFA and the local Neighbourhood Watch groups, a mobile ‘jaws of life’ unit will be purchased and sited at Woods Point to help in a number of potential rescue situations.