b'1967 1970Pastoral Division Bougainville CopperFurther spreading its wings, three Thiess Holdings wins a two-year cattle stations are acquired over contract with Bougainville Copper 1 million acres in the Kimberley in Limited to build the township around the far north of Western Australia. the mine on Bougainville Island, Papua This acquisition added to the existingNew Guinea.cattle already being run on mining tenements, such as Terang. The company becomes one of the first to pioneer the use of helicopters in A cattle truck, part of the Pastoral mustering, and the division remained Division, Kimberley, c. 1967. successful throughout the 1970s.40'