Mining

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

Aerial photograph of mineral sands mining at Eneabba

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.

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