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Port Stanvac Refinery was an oil refinery in the Australian state of South Australia located in Lonsdale, a southern suburb of Adelaide. Its construction was announced in 1958 and began refining crude oil in 1963. [3] It had a capacity of 3.3 million tons per annum [2] and was owned by ExxonMobil Australia (and previously Mobil). The refinery ...
The Cawse mine is a mothballed laterite nickel mine near Ora Banda in Western Australia.Cawse has a remnant Proven Reserve of 3.757 million tonnes of ore grading 0.65% nickel for 24,400 tonnes of nickel, as of 31 December 2009.
Quartz-pebble metaconglomerate (Jack Hills Quartzite), the rock type that contains Earth's oldest dated mineral grains (detrital zircon) Detrital zircons with ages greater than 4 billion years old have been found in these rocks, and a 4,404 ± 8 million year old zircon was found at Erawandoo Hill; [4] this is the oldest dated material originating on Earth; the date is in the Cryptic era of the ...
The Hamersley Range is a mountainous region of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.The range was named on 12 June 1861 by explorer Francis Thomas Gregory after Edward Hamersley, a prominent promoter of his exploration expedition to the northwest.
The geology of Australia includes virtually all known rock types, spanning a geological time period of over 3.8 billion years, including some of the oldest rocks on earth. Australia is a continent situated on the Indo-Australian Plate .
Collinsville Power Station is located in Collinsville, Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. It had five coal powered steam turbines with a combined generation capacity of 190 MW of electricity. The coal-fired power station closed in 2013. [1] A solar power farm generating 42MW has been built on adjacent land.
The Yarrabubba impact structure is the eroded remnant of an impact crater, situated in the northern Yilgarn Craton near Yarrabubba Station between the towns of Sandstone and Meekatharra, Mid West Western Australia. [2] [3] With an age of 2.229 billion years, it is the oldest known impact structure on Earth. [1]
The incline railway descends 415 m (453.85 yd) through sandstone cliffs, via a rock tunnel with a maximum gradient of 52 degrees. Also, at this location is the Scenic Skyway, a glass-bottom aerial cable car that traverses an arm of the Jamison Valley, and the Scenic Cableway, the steepest aerial cable car in Australia.