Dampier Salt Mines
This large solar salt mine is not available for public inspection. Tours can be arranged through the Tourist Bureau if sufficient number of visitors are interested.
Dampier Salt Operations Pty. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Dampier salt Ltd. operates the lake Macleod field.
Lake Macleod is a 225,000-hectare coastal salt lake. It is one hundred and ten kilometres long and forty kilometres wide and is separated from the Indian Ocean by a coastal barrier some ten kilometres wide.
The lake contains a sub-surface brine aquifer between one and two metres below the surface. A collection ditch has been cut into the halite layer of the lake. The natural brine aquifer flows into this ditch and the saturated brine is pumped into the crystalliser system. Solar evaporation then causes crystallisation of sodium chloride. The salt is harvested and taken by road train to the wash plant, where it is left to drain for at least twelve weeks. After this it is taken to Cape Cuvier where it is stockpiled for shipping.
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