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160103 DJI 0054308 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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140517-4417307 viewsA Tutt Bryant rope operated Pacific A.C.E. Equipment Wheel Loader, Fordson powered?? The front end loader which lifts the bucket over the cab to feed the trammel, or dump into a truck, see an historical picture of this unit here at the Battye Library and an image of a similar unit on the manufacturer's website
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206-32307 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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160102 DJI 0039306 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 DJI 0073306 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: -22.3090405 118.3190116 .
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204-22305 viewsWittenoom Gorge Mine, remains of asbestos mining, underground tipping ore cars, detail view of wheels and underside of car.
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205-32305 viewsKoodaideri, drive cut into side, early exploration, drive was dug by Umberto Favero, a long time Hancock employee and worker and then caretaker of the Wittenoom mine site and settlement.
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160101 9790305 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, mine adit no. 2. Geodata: 22°19'28.8"S 118°19'41.7"E .
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140517-4372304 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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140517-4389304 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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140517-4399303 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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140517-4426303 viewsA Tutt Bryant rope operated Pacific A.C.E. Equipment Wheel Loader, Fordson powered?? The front end loader which lifts the bucket over the cab to feed the trammel, or dump into a truck, see an historical picture of this unit here at the Battye Library and an image of a similar unit on the manufacturer's website
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160101 9793302 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, concrete slab of former building located along the mine railway, adit 3 is behind the pile of rubble. Geodata.
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160102 DJI 0034302 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 0037302 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 9772301 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, concrete slab for former building. Geodata.
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160101 9780301 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, site of milling building on left, access ramp to mine adits on the right. Geodata.
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140517-4375300 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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160101 9784300 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view inside the drive, mine adit no. 5.
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160101 9808300 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, concrete footings and foundations for the now removed milling plant, drive visible in the background. Geodata.
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