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South Australia Attractions Directory : Mining and Industry
Andamooka Dukes Bottlehouse Museum
The unique Andamooka Dukes Bottlehouse has been built from discarded beer bottles and is now a museum featuring displays of opal related mining equipment, opals and historical artefacts. Entry to the museum is via the Australia Post Office shop. Information and visits can also be arranged to view the small White Dam Opal Field settlement. Since opal was first discovered in 1965, this field has produced some of the area's finest gemstones. While at the settlement you can also see the late Bil...Andamooka Dukes Bottlehouse Museum
Andamooka, Far North
Barossa Goldfield Trail
Discover the gold mining history of the area on one of the two loop trails. The shorter loop is just over one kilometre long and takes about one hour to complete. The longer loop is about five kilometres and takes three to four hours. Interpretive signs illustrate mining techniques, geology, and treatment of ore and the lifestyles of people who lived there. Fossicking and collecting of rocks are not permitted. Re-enactment Day is at Bowden's Cottage on the fourth Sunday in September where visi...Barossa Goldfield Trail
Cockatoo Valley, Barossa
Bon Accord Mine Complex
The Bon Accord Mine Complex is owned and administered by the National Trust, Burra, and is concerned with preserving, studying and exhibiting items that help in illustrating and explaining the story of the Burra area. The display includes a working forge, a six metre by five metre model of the Burra Mine depicting traditional underground mining in 1860 and, in the old waterworks building, an original mine shaft from which Burra pumped its water supply until 1966. In the grounds stands an 1859 ...Bon Accord Mine Complex
Burra, Clare Valley
Burra Mine Site
Enjoy a self-drive tour or walk through the Burra Mine Site, a South Australian State heritage area. The open-air museum contains remains of the mining operations, recreating the exciting atmosphere of the monster mine. Entrance to the Burra Mine Site is included in the Burra Heritage Passport, available from the Burra Visitor Information Centre, 2 Market Square, Burra (open seven days per week and public holidays 9am to 5pm, closed Christmas Day). Copper ore was discovered at Burra in 1845 an...Burra Mine Site
Burra, Clare Valley
Constantia Designer Craftsmen
Where would you expect to find one of the world's firms of master craftsmen? Rome, Paris, London … or Port Lincoln? Constantia is a group of furniture craftsmen with an international reputation for fine furniture and furniture design. It is one of the few artisan groups accredited to The Guild of Master Craftsmen, and sited in Port Lincoln because of the exceptional climatic conditions. This provides you with a rare opportunity to see woodcraft of a quality most thought was lost to the modern d...Constantia Designer Craftsmen
Port Lincoln, Eyre Peninsula
Faye`s Underground Home And Opal Mine
Located in a beautiful desert garden, is Faye's famous Underground Home. The original one room home housed the first mail truck driver over sixty years ago. It was converted by Faye Nayler and two other women, using only picks and shovels, into a kitchen and bedroom. Later five other rooms were added including a wine cellar and a swimming pool. Unlike a number of display homes in town, Faye's Underground Home is actually lived in. The occupiers will be happy to show you the advantages of dugout ...Faye`s Underground Home And Opal Mine
Coober Pedy, Far North
Heritage Blinman Mine Tours
After recent extensive excavations it is now possible to take a tour through the Blinman Mine tunnels that were once worked by the Cornish Miners in 1862. You can share some of their experiences on the personalised fully guided tours combining an intimate theatrical presentation using art and sound scapes. Tours run on the hour seven days a week and last for approximately one hour. Tour companies welcome with prior bookings and tour rates.Heritage Blinman Mine Tours
Blinman, Flinders Ranges
Hughes Enginehouse
The classic Cornish Hughes Enginehouse was constructed in 1865. It was named after Walter Watson Hughes, the founder of the Moonta Mining Company. The building housed a 60 inch (1.52 metre) Cornish beam pumping engine, which operated pumps in Hughes and Taylor's Shafts to allow the mining of the main ore body below natural water levels. The engine worked continuously, except for maintenance for more than 58 years until closure of the mine in 1923. A walking trail provides access to Hughes Engin...Hughes Enginehouse
Moonta, Yorke Peninsula
Kapunda Mine Trail
The Kapunda Mine Trail is an easy walk of one and a half kilometres and takes about one hour to complete. Interpretive signs explain how the ore was once mined and treated. Kapunda Mine was the first successful commercial metal mine in Australia and together with Burra contributed to the colony's recovery from economic crisis in the early 1840s. A group of miners known as a pare would tender for an area of the exposed ore body and were paid according to the value of ore extracted. The compan...Kapunda Mine Trail
Kapunda, Clare Valley
Mintaro Slate Quarries
Slate has been quarried in Mintaro since the mid 1860s and was extensively used in the old colonial homes and public buildings of Mintaro. Acknowledged as one of the best slates in the world, some aspects of production have remained unchanged since the 1860s. Today, efficiency in handling and cutting slate has been increased with the addition of modern mobile processing equipment. Slate is quarried for domestic and commercial use including flooring, fireplaces and bench tops, patios, paths, g...Mintaro Slate Quarries
Mintaro, Clare Valley
Moonta Mines Tourist Railway
The Moonta Mines Tourist Railway is a 50 minute train ride through history. The narrow gauge rail train takes visitors past and through many of the sites which played an important role in Moonta's history as a major copper producing centre. Departing from the Station adjacent to the Moonta Mines Museum, passengers pass the reservoir and ore sorting floors, through a tunnel in Ryan's Tailings Heap to the former Precipitations Works for an inspection of the story of copper recovery, before begin...Moonta Mines Tourist Railway
Moonta, Yorke Peninsula
National Trust of South Australia
The National Trust in South Australia has active programs in three areas: managing heritage buildings and nature reserves including over sixty museums and folk history collections, devising and disseminating policies on a range of heritage issues and lobbying for improved protection of our heritage and providing awareness raising programs in the broader community on cultural and natural heritage matters. With over 100 historic buildings, including Collingrove Homestead in Angaston, Ayers House ...National Trust of South Australia
Adelaide, Adelaide
Nyrstar Lead Smelter
Celebrating 120 years of production in 2009, the Nyrstar Port Pirie Lead Smelter is a significant contributor to the Port Pirie Community and the Mid North Region. Producing and exporting lead, zinc, silver and gold from site on the Upper Spencer Gulf, the smelter is part of the Nyrstar Pty Ltd group, one of the largest integrated zinc and lead producers in the world. Tours of the Nyrstar Port Pirie Smelter are available on Monday, Wednesday and Friday through the Port Pirie Tourism and Art ...Nyrstar Lead Smelter
Port Pirie, Flinders Ranges
Opalios
Opalios has been mining in the Coober Pedy opal fields since 1973 and is still mining today. It is a family business that cuts all its own opal and creates its own jewellery on site. We have an experienced opal miner, expert opal cutter, and jeweller on site, and all our opal is cut to the finest standard. All opals and jewellery come with a written certificate, guaranteeing quality, value, and craftsmanship. Come and see Andrew, Stella and George for the best value opals.Opalios
Coober Pedy, Far North
Powder Magazine
The Powder Magazine was erected in 1847 and is the oldest remaining mine building in Australia. It stored gunpowder used in blasting at the mine. The building has an arched stone roof for strength and was lined with sheepskin for safety. The National Trust restored it in 1976. Admission to Powder Magazine is included in the Burra Heritage Passport, available from the Burra Visitor Information Centre, 2 Market Square, Burra. Can be opened with a key at anytime when on the Burra Herritage Pass...Powder Magazine
Burra, Clare Valley
Southern Fleurieu Fish
Southern Fleurieu Fish is a shop for the serious seafood lover. Watch the professionals in the trade processing fish on site through the glass doors. The display is brimming with tantalising choices of local Fleurieu regional produce in season with the ever-popular Coorong Mullet a favourite. You can purchase from the huge range of fresh local fish and seafood including live crayfish and marron (in season), South Australian prawns, oysters and take it home or choose to have it cooked while you w...Southern Fleurieu Fish
Victor Harbor, Fleurieu Peninsula
Star Opal Fossil Collection
In 1974 we purchased the block where Star Opal and our dugout home are now situated. On the block there was a small stone building, which was used as a cutting room by the previous owner and a very small one roomed dugout. At Star Opal we strive to give you the personalized service that is most essential when you are purchasing opal. Our aim is to show you a large range of opal so that you can make that personal choice, and have the expert advice of our staff regarding your purchase. Our reside...Star Opal Fossil Collection
Coober Pedy, Far North
Warraweena Private Conservation Park
Warraweena is a 355 square kilometre private conservation park in the highest part of the northern Flinders Ranges. Points of interest include Mount Hack; the highest peak in the northern Flinders, Sliding Rock copper mine ruins, Yellow Footed Rock Wallabies, Warrioota Gorge, waterholes and over 250 kilometres of four wheel drive vehicle tracks (fees vary) to suit all skill levels. Accommodation options include many secluded and scenic camp spots most equipped with a modern long drop toilet and...Warraweena Private Conservation Park
Beltana, Flinders Ranges
Wattle Point Wind Farm
Located near Edithburgh the Wattle Point Wind Farm opened in June 2005. The 55 turbines generate enough electricity to supply 52,000 homes- two per cent of South Australia's electricity. The rhythmic turning of the turbines begins to generate electricity in a light breeze of only nine kilometres per hour and reaches full production at winds of around 47 kilometres per hour. Blade speeds can reach up to 222 kilometres per hour but the turbines automatically shut down to avoid damage in gale for...Wattle Point Wind Farm
Edithburgh, Yorke Peninsula
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