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• Tin mining in the North West
  Geologist panning for tin, North West
• Sifting tin from sand
  The final yandying, always done by women, consists in holding the yandy full of wash on a slight slope and by a peculiar combination of jerk and slight rotation,the heavy tin ore is worked up hill to the right hand and the light quartz and felspar gravel worked downhill and over the left end of the yandy. A heavy garnet (spessarlite) which tends to remain with the tin is removed by taking advantage of the fact that the garnet crystals are almost spherical and once having started to roll under the influence of a rapid rotary motion of the yandy, they easily run off down hill to the left.
• Tin dredge at Mt Garnet
• Dry tin concentrate plant at Shaw River
• The mining district of Greenbushes
• Chicken Creek Coal Mine owned by Griffin Coal
• Underground work, Stockton Mine. Coal machine, one seam
  Two men working at the coal face, Stockton Mine, 1947
• North Rankin A Platform on the North West Shelf
• Oil refinery at Kwinana
  Main control room of the distillation plant for the oil refinery
• Drilling Rig at Rought Range
  Drilling rig that found Australia's first flow of oil at Rough Range
• Aerial photographs of the Wittenoom asbestos mine
• Wittenoom. Asbestos mining. General view of Mine in Western Gorge
• Miner underground operating small electric engine pulling asbestos ore along rail tracks
  Miner underground operating small electric engine pulling asbestos ore along rail tracks
• Aerial photograph of mineral sands mining at Eneabba
• Cable Sands Minninup mineral sands mine
• Cable Sands Minninup mineral sands mine
• Cable Sands Minninup mineral sands mine
• Safety training at SCM Chemicals plant
• Robert G. Becher officially opens the second stage of the Tiwest Joint Venture Chandala Operations
  The plaque reads: Tiwest Joint Venture Chandala Operations, the second stage of Australia's first fully integrated mineral sands to titanium dioxide pigment project was officially opened on Friday, 18th October 1991 by Mr Robert G. Becher (Developer of the Becher Process for the production of synthetic rutile) - The process synthesised rutile from ilmenite.
• Cyril Gare personal film: Wittenoom
  Group inspects township; Views of gorge; Light rail line entering mine; candle-powered miners' lamps; Building under construction; Brief aerial views.
• Loading bagged asbestos at Wittenoom for delivery at Point Samson
• WAPET gas well at Dongara
• Geologist Don Stanley taking a sample of the first oil found in Australia at Rough Range
• The Locke Oil Expedition
  The 1922 Locke Oil Expedition started from Leonora along the Canning Stock Route for Halls Creek, led by geologist L.J. Jones with assistant H.P. Buckley
• Varanus Island Processing Hub operated by Apache Energy
• May Day parade float displaying a brief history of the Collie Coalfields
• Muja Power Station
• Western 5 open cut coal mine owned by Western Collieries
• Final Bid to Avert Dismissals
  Newspaper article from The Collie Mail about job losses in the coal industry
• Extract from interview with Bill (Scotty) Jack
  In this extract Bill Jack discusses using horses in coal mining
• Extract from interview with Arthur H. Sweeney, coal miner
  In this extract Arthur Sweeney discusses wages and the conditions of working in a coal mine in 1908
• The Proprietary Coal Mine, Colliefields
• Alcoa alumina refinery, Wagerup
  Aerial photographs of Alcoa alumina refinery
• Men at work at Alcoa bauxite mine, Jarrahdale
  Alcoa commenced mining at Jarrahdale in 1963, marking the birth of the Aluminium industry in Australia. The first mine pit was at the Jarrahdale site now known as Langford Park. Ore mined from Jarrahdale was transported by rail to Alcoa’s Kwinana Alumina Refinery and in the first year of operation 48,750 tonnes of bauxite were mined and transported to Kwinana. Mining ceased in 1998. 
• Blasting at Pannawonica Mine
• Mt Whaleback and the Mt Newman Mining Co. mine
• Steel Construction Company digging trenches for foundations at Tom Price in the late 1960s
  Ricky Strautins was Managing Director of Steel Construction Company which was a contractor for Hamersley Iron.
• Hamersley Iron's ore loading wharf at Parker Point 
• Gurkah Lead Mine, Northampton
• Mt Keith Nickel mine
• Kambalda nickel ore
  Mine site and ore dump
• Aerial view of old Poseidon nickel mine near Laverton which closed in 1977
  This was the site of the South Windarra desposit, which was discovered through a joint venture between Union oil development Corporation, Australian Hanna Ltd, and Homestake Iron Ore Co in early 1971.
• Spring Valley Tin Ltd, tin mine
  Sluicing the tin
• Magnetic separation spirals at Eneabba Mineral Sands operations
• Entrance to old asbestos shaft Wittenoom Gorge
• Aerial photograph of Barrow Island
• Alcoa Kwinana refinery
• Mining bauxite in the Darling Range for Alcoa
• Iron ore conveyor belt from the Channar Iron Mine to Paraburdoo
  Channar is owned by Hamersley Iron Pty. Ltd.
• Aerial photographs of the iron mine at Mt Goldsworthy
• Mt Newman Ore Train
  Views of Mt Whaleback and Port Hedland
• Iron ore mining on Cockatoo Island
• Pearl diver and other crew on pearl lugger, possibly near Broome
• Ore deposits at Cockatoo Island
• Mitchell, Ernest Lund
  Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Vosper, Frederick Charles Burleigh
  Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Extract from Interview with James (Jim) Limerick
  Extract from oral history interview with James Limerick, a metallurgist who worked with Western Mining. He talks about the Carbon in Pulp method for gold extraction.
• Panorama of the Super Pit