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In December 2020, Boral sold Midland Brick to the Buckeridge Group of Companies. [10] This followed Boral selling its bricks business on Australia's east coast in 2016. In April 2021, Boral divested its plasterboard business, completing the process with the sale of its 50 per cent interest in the USG Boral joint venture to Knauf for US$1 ...
The Portland Cement Works & Quarries Site is a large historical industrial site set in the centre of the town of Portland, some 27 km north west of Lithgow, just west of the Blue Mountains. The cement works closed down in 1991 and the last lime quarry was decommissioned in 1998.
Stonyfell quarry, c.1923. James Edlin opened the first quarry in the hundred of Adelaide on Section 1050 in 1837, to supply building stone and slate to local builders. G. Walker Johnson and Arthur Hardy took over the quarry by 1850 and it became known as Beacon Hill Quarry. [4] [5]
As of the 2021 Australian census, 27 people resided in South Ballina, [1] down from 37 in the 2016 census. [11] The median age of persons in South Ballina was 56 years. There were more males than females, with 60.0% of the population male and 40.0% female.
A few months later CSR made a partial re-entry into mining, when it bought up 48 quarries from the US ARC subsidiary of the British Hanson corporation. It also pulled out of a plasterboard joint venture with Redland Plasterboard (established in 1987) while retaining its Australian and New Zealand interests, through Monier PGH—a company with ...
In 1963, Boral purchased Mount Lyell's share in CSML. They onsold their share to BP the following year, and CSML was consequently renamed Cuming Smith British Petroleum and Farmers Limited (CSBP). [2] CSBP commissioned superphosphate and sulphuric acid plants in Kwinana in 1967. The Kwinana Nitrogen Company was established the following year ...
The quarry is estimated to contain a deposit of 25 million tons of gypsum. [26] [27] USG operates an active narrow gauge railway, the last industrial narrow gauge railway in the United States. [28] [29] The 3 ft (914 mm) gauge line runs north for 26 miles (42 km) from the plant at Plaster City (formerly known as Maria) to the gypsum
In the 2011 census, the population of Mount Gravatt East was 10,891, 50.9% female and 49.1% male.The median age of the Mount Gravatt East population was 34 years of age, 3 years below the Australian median. 71.8% of people living in Mount Gravatt East were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were New Zealand 3.5%, England 2.8% ...