Salt harvesting and quarrying in South Australia [PRG 1682/2/151-200] • Photograph
'Curdimurka' harvester.
'Curdimurka' harvester loading salt onto a conveyor, possibly at the Dry Creek salt fields, South Australia.
Stacker discharge.
View looking up at a stacker conveyor, piling harvested salt into a mound.
Stacker discharge.
Stacker conveyor piling harvested salt into mounds, possibly at Dry Creek, South Australia.
Salt stacks at night.
Salt stacks on a salt field at night.
Stacker switchboard.
Stacker conveyor switchboard and control panel.
Stacker scoreboard.
Close view of the 'Harvest Scoreboard. Last working day 5025, Best this season 8038, Best last season 5984, Best ever 8038', possibly at Dry Creek salt fields, South Australia.
Salt stacker.
Stacker conveyor by mounds of salt on the edge of a salt field, possibly at Dry Creek, South Australia.
'Hodog' harvester and pusher tractor.
'Hodog' salt harvesting machine and a pusher tractor on a salt field, finishing a run, possibly at Dry Creek, South Australia.
'Curdimurka' harvester and conveyors.
'Curdimurka' harvester loading harvester salt onto conveyors, possibly at Dry Creek salt fields, South Australia.
'Curdimurka' elevator.
Close view of the elevator on the 'Curdimurka' salt harvester, carrying salt onto a conveyor, possibly at Dry Creek salt field, South Australia.
'Curdimurka' harvester.
Front view of the 'Curdimurka' salt harvester, loading salt onto a conveyor, possibly at Dry Creek salt fields.
Salt harvesting plant.
View of a salt harvesting plant from the No.6 conveyor, with mounds of harvested salt in the background, possibly taken at Dry Creek salt fields, South Australia.
Salt harvest.
View from the top of a stacker conveyor, looking down on harvesting machines harvesting salt, possibly at Dry Creek salt fields, South Australia, with mounds of harvested salt in the background.
Salt stacker.
Side view of a stacker conveyor by mounds of harvested salt on the edge of a salt field, possibly at Dry Creek, South Australia.
Salt harvest.
View from the stop of a stacker conveyor looking down on a salt harvesting maching, loading salt onto a conveyor in a salt field, possibly at Dry Creek, South Australia.
'Hodog' harvester.
Close view of a worker operating a hydraulic 'Hodog' Mk1 harvesting machine.
'Curdimurka' harvester.
View looking up at the elevators on the 'Curdimurka' salt harvesting machine.
Osborne plant.
Landscape view of the Penrice soda ash plant at Osborne, South Australia, taken from the top of a stacker conveyor. Written on slide 'Osborne from stacker top Arow'.
Solar salt harvester.
Man standing by a large solar salt harvesting machine, possibly at Port Paterson solar salt field near Port Augusta.
Solar salt harvesting wagons.
Four solar salt harvesting wagons in a row, with a large shed in the background, possibly at Port Paterson solar salt field near Port Augusta.
Solar salt harvester.
Side view of a solar salt harvester, possibly at Port Paterson solar salt field near Port Augusta.
Solar salt field.
Landscape view of 'Pond 2' solar salt field, possibly at Port Paterson solar salt field near Port Augusta, South Australia.
Seawater pump house.
Workers and a car outside a seawater pump house for solar salt fields, possibly at the Port Paterson solar salt field near Port Augusta, South Australia.
Sea wall, salt fields.
Landscape view of a sea wall at a solar salt field, possibly at the Port Paterson solar salt field near Port Augusta, South Australia.
Solar salt field.
Landscape view of Solar Salt North field at Port Paterson, taken from Mount Grainger near Port Augusta, South Australia.
Solar salt field.
Landscape view of Solar Salt North field at Port Paterson taken from Mount Grainger near Port Augusta, South Australia.
Solar salt field.
Landscape view of Solar Salt South field at Port Paterson taken from Mount Grainger near Port Augusta, South Australia.
Solar salt field.
Landscape view of Solar Salt South field at Port Paterson taken from Mount Grainger near Port Augusta, South Australia.
Solar salt washing plant.
Worker standing by a solar salt washing plant, possibly at the Port Paterson solar salt field near Port Augusta, South Australia.
Solar salt stacker at washing plant.
Stacker conveyor piling harvested salt into mounds on the edge of a salt field, possibly at Port Paterson near Port Augusta, run by the Solar Salt Company.