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160101 DJI 0008442 viewsWittenoom Gorge, at the end of Bolitho Rd neat the former settlement looking south west towards the Gorge Mine, power station was located on cut to the left above the tree line. Geodata.
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160102 DJI 0046442 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view looking north, tailings from Colonial Mine on the left, Magazine Pool on the right. Geodata.
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160103 DJI 0055442 viewsColonial Mill and mine ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. Concrete foundations remain of the once impressive crusher, mill, dryer and bagging plant. See images of the site intact here . Geodata: -22.3107554 118.3185943 .
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160101 9787441 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view inside the drive, mine adit no. 5.
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197-29438 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, builders plate for Mancha type MB1 controller, serial number M6 3165.
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160101 9798438 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view of old plant footings on second level. GeoData.
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160102 DJI 0037438 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view looking north west over the remains of the footings and slabs of the Gorge Mine location. Geodata.
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160101 9776437 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, mine drive adit No.6 concrete entry structure. Geodata.
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160101 DJI 0010437 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view from above East Gorge looking north west with the tailings stacked up the gorge and the remains of the settlement in the middle, Wittenoom is out the top right corner. Geodata.
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160102 DJI 0034437 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view looking south west towards the Gorge Mine location with drive visible on both side walls. Geodata.
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160102 DJI 0039437 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view looking north east over the remains of the footings and slabs of the Gorge Mine location with the drive ramp up the left wall, pool in Joffre Creek on the right. Geodata.
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160103 9839437 viewsLocated in the bush near Colonial Mill is this relic of a Fordson One Man Power Grader originally supplied by Lynas Motors Ltd. An old newspaper article on these graders can be found here . Geodata: -22.3057767 118.3247750 .
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204-25436 viewsWittenoom Gorge Mine, remains of asbestos mining, view of the unloading area with the hoppers and chutes where the underground tipping ore cars were emptied.
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160101 9769436 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, concrete slab for railway workshops, track set in concrete. Location of image is here.
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160103 DJI 0069436 viewsColonial Mill and mine ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. The large concrete area on the upper level is the former mining offices and railway workshops, a sharp eye will see the sealed mine entry with a red door. See images of the site intact here , 194-08 shows the sealed red entry point. Geodata: -22.3112605 118.3190326 .
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140517-4372435 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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197-30435 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, builders plate for Mancha type MB1 controller, serial number M6 3165.
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205-36435 viewsKoodaideri, track leading up to the underground drive, about 500 metres before the drive was a big warning sign about radio active substances.
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140517-4374434 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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206-32434 viewsAn empty train on the Yarrie (former Goldsworthy) line with a string of Golynx ore waggons, built by Goninan WA to a Lynx Engineering design, and then the two types of the waggons from the Phelps Dodge Copper Mine, the ribbed units are built by Portec USA and the smooth ones built by Gunderson USA. All of these are belly dump waggons as opposed to the BHP fleet of rotary dump bodies.
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