Silence of the Salt Mines, Adelaide_1754s
Salt evaporation ponds at Dry Creek north of Adelaide. When you walk in here, past numerous warning signs on broken down fences, you feel you have entered an alien world - there are no birds, no wild life any kind, no sound (save the rumble of a distant highway), and an eerie stillness bathed in a weird frosted-white light. I didn't hang around too long. They harvest for a short period between the end of summer and the first autumn rains.
www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/salt.htm
"This method of obtaining salt from sea water evaporation were started in 1915 at Yorkey Crossing near Port Augusta, Port Paterson in 1915 and Port Price on Wills Creek in 1919. This method now accounts for most of South Australia's salt production.
The main producers at that time being ICI Australia Ltd, from its solar evaporation plants at Dry Creek, Waratah Gypsum Pty. Ltd., from Lake MacDonnell, Ocean Salt Pty. Ltd. from its works at Price and BHP from Whyalla.
Today the largest producer is ICI, which established its plants at Dry Creek and Osborne in 1940. It now operates a completely mechanised harvesting system producing in excess of 500,000 tons per annum.
Production from South Australia, which has ideal climatic conditions for solar evaporation from sea water, has increased remarkably since that time. In 1990 it produced more than 940,000 tons. Most of the salt is exported to countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaya, and New Zealand."
Salt evaporation Ponds, Dry Creek, South Australia
Silence of the Salt Mines, Adelaide_1754s
Salt evaporation ponds at Dry Creek north of Adelaide. When you walk in here, past numerous warning signs on broken down fences, you feel you have entered an alien world - there are no birds, no wild life any kind, no sound (save the rumble of a distant highway), and an eerie stillness bathed in a weird frosted-white light. I didn't hang around too long. They harvest for a short period between the end of summer and the first autumn rains.
www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/salt.htm
"This method of obtaining salt from sea water evaporation were started in 1915 at Yorkey Crossing near Port Augusta, Port Paterson in 1915 and Port Price on Wills Creek in 1919. This method now accounts for most of South Australia's salt production.
The main producers at that time being ICI Australia Ltd, from its solar evaporation plants at Dry Creek, Waratah Gypsum Pty. Ltd., from Lake MacDonnell, Ocean Salt Pty. Ltd. from its works at Price and BHP from Whyalla.
Today the largest producer is ICI, which established its plants at Dry Creek and Osborne in 1940. It now operates a completely mechanised harvesting system producing in excess of 500,000 tons per annum.
Production from South Australia, which has ideal climatic conditions for solar evaporation from sea water, has increased remarkably since that time. In 1990 it produced more than 940,000 tons. Most of the salt is exported to countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaya, and New Zealand."
Salt evaporation Ponds, Dry Creek, South Australia