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Daily programming for WMCT began on December 11, 1948.
In 1953, Sir Lindesay Clark, the company's third chairman, announced a significant revision of the company's business strategy.
1953: WMC diversifies beyond gold.
Williamson Medical Center was the brainchild of Doctor J.O. Walker, who, in 1954, decided Williamson County needed its own medical facility.
WMC first located nickel in 1954, but it was ten years later when the company performed sufficient geologic evaluation to determine that the deposit was worth exploration.
He introduced legislation that was passed in 1957 by the General Assembly that officially established Williamson County Hospital.
1960: WMC acquires 50% of a talc mine.
The first shipment of alumina was sent to Japan in 1964.
In 1964, WMC had bought the portion of GMA it did not already own.
Serious exploration was then begun, and two major ore deposits were identified early in 1966.
Work on the first nickel mine was therefore initiated in late 1966.
In 1966, such an offering raised A$7.5 million, of which A$5 million was used in the construction of the mine and its attendant infrastructure.
The addition opened to the public in 1967 and added 32 beds to the facility, bringing the total to 82 patient beds.
1967: WMC exports its first nickel concentrates.
In 1968, the hospital’s first critical care unit opened under the direction of Doctor Robert Hollister.
In 1968, the first shipment of bauxite went to ALCOA refineries.
In 1968, construction of a nickel refinery began.
A 1968 offering raised another A$46 million, of which at least A$45 million was spent on construction of the refinery; on needed railway links among the mine, the concentrator and the refinery, and on further improvements to the associated town.
When Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis to support the sanitation workers' strike that set the stage for his assassination in 1968, then-station general manager Mori Greiner established an unprecedented program called The 40% Speaks, in an effort to promote racial healing in the community.
Kambalda - Its Discovery and Early Development - 1971
1971 was the facility’s second expansion where a third and fourth floor were added to the West Wing adding 32 additional patient beds.
Only in 1972 did the company find a promising uranium deposit near Yeelirrie, Western Australia.
By 1975, it had located a rich deposit of copper and uranium under 350 meters of barren rock at the Olympic Dam site.
In 1977, the Western Australia and federal governments approved further development of the project.
At the hospital’s 20-year anniversary in 1978, a number of employee service awards were handed out to honor employees who had been with the hospital since its inception.
Also in 1978, the building saw its third expansion project, a new patient tower bringing the hospital capacity to 182 beds along with expanded X-ray facilities and nuclear medicine.
In 1979, WMC acquired most of BH South, Ltd.
A research plant was completed in 1979, and trial mining began.
The doors of the new $26.5 million state-of-the-art medical center opened in August of 1986.
By 1986, the bustling county’s population was busting at the seams, and had outgrown its only hospital.
In 1988, it had acquired Hi Fert, Ltd., a major Australian blender and distributor of high analysis fertilizers.
1988: Production of copper and uranium begins at Olympic Dam.
WMC in 1990 - Operations around Australia
After many years of solid management, Scripps sold WMC-AM-FM-TV to Atlanta businessman Bert Ellis and his new company, Ellis Communications, on July 19, 1993.
In 1996, the company changed names from Queensland Phosphate, Ltd, to WMC Fertilizers, Ltd, and announced the decision to develop a A$700 million fertilizer project at the site.
In 2000, Olympic Dam produced 4,500 tons of uranium oxide and 200,400 tons of refined copper.
In 2000, it announced the intended sale of its talc operations.
WMC Equity in all Mineral Production to 2003, Table
In the fall of 2013, after years of negotiating and planning, WMC announced a partnership with Vanderbilt Medical Center to construct a Monroe Carell Jr.
July 1 of 2015, Williamson Medical Center celebrated its new children’s hospital with a massive grand opening.
The sale was approved on December 20, and was completed on January 2, 2019.
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