Chapter 6
I Construction During The Settlement Years
II The Use Of Timber As A Structural Material
III Structural Steel
IV Concrete Technology
V Housing
VI Industrialised Pre-cast Concrete Housing
VII Ports And Harbours
VIII Roads
IX Heavy Foundations
X Bridges
XI Sewerage
XII Water Engineering
XIII Railways
XIV Major Buildings
XV Airports
XVI Thermal Power Stations
XVII Materials Handling
i For grain:
ii For salt:
iii For sugar
iv For iron ore
v For coal
vi For bauxite:
vii For alumina:
viii For cement:
XVIII Oil Industry
XIX The Snowy Mountains Scheme
XX The Sydney Opera House
XXI The Sydney Harbour Bridge
XXII Hamersley Iron
XXIII North West Shelf
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For bauxite:
It is noteworthy that one of Australia's major deposits, that at Weipa, was first reported in the very late 1700s, and more interesting to note that it was very close to the location of the first European sighting of the Australian coastline by Willem Jansz in 1606. Today the area remains very isolated, lying some six hundred kilometres by air from Cairns, and six hundred and seventy nautical miles by sea.CRA's renowned geologist, Harry Evans, was responsible for Weipa's bauxite deposit being delineated and developed. Because of its location it was necessary for special engineering activities to be employed to open up the area in order that ships to 100,000 dwt capacity could call at Albatross Bay to take away the bauxite. The deposit has a possible reserve of 2,500 million tonnes of recoverable material. Bauxite is shipped to Gladstone, Japan, and Europe at rates in excess of 8.5 Mtpy. The transportation from mine to face to alumina plant is by truck, rail, conveyors, stackers/reclaimers, and ship.
Bauxite is mined and processed at the rate of 5 Mtpy at Gove in the Northern Territory. It is also mined in the Darling Ranges of Western Australia. Modern long distance overland conveyors handle material at a rate of 3.5 Mtpy.
Australia's total current production rate of bauxite is 29.5 Mtpy.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - Weipa Bauxite project, Qld
People in Bright Sparcs - Evans, Harry; Jansz, Willem; Peacock, E. E.
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