A Summary of Major Mineral Resources, Mines and Projects, 2nd Edition |
BOWEN SALTWORKS
479602
ADJACENT TO BOWEN TOWNSHIP, 160KM SE TOWNSVILLE.
Latitude -20.0232 Longitude 148.2215
CARE AND MAINTENANCE
AMG Zone 55 627761 mE 7785482 mN
1:100 000 sheet Number and Name: 8557 BOWEN
1/December/2005
Other Names for Deposit / Mine |
Cheetham Salt Bowen
BRINE SALT
1/07/1997
30/06/1998
BRINE SALT
10000.0 tonnes
1/07/1999
30/06/2000
BRINE SALT
10000.0 tonnes
Published Reserves/Resources |
Resource figures listed above have been extracted from Company Annual reports or published literature.
Major Mining Related Events |
SURFACE MINING METHODS
Series of evaporative ponds.
Currently untenured mineral deposit |
Host Rock/Cover Sequences |
EVAPORITE
QUATERNARY
Sea water is pumped into a series of evaporative ponds increasing in salininty as it is moved through the pond system. When the salinity |
is highest the water is moved onto the crystalisation pond where salt crystals form and are harvested. |