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BA2840/1445: A lump of salt grown by Onslow Salt in the hands of manager Jacques Le Roux, August 2019
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BA2840/1446: A belly-loader heading to the stockpile with harvested salt at Onslow Salt, August 2019
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BA2840/1447: A belly-loader heading to the stockpile with harvested salt at Onslow Salt, August 2019
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BA2840/1448: A grader rips open the hard surface of the crystalliser pond and pushes the wet salt into windrows ready for the harvester, August 2019
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BA2840/1449: A view of the grader shows how hard the environment is on equipment at Onslow Salt, August 2019
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BA2840/1450: The grader blade must be cleaned once a week using high pressure sea water to remove the salt that has built up on the blade and set solid
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BA2840/1451: The back of the blade on Onslow Salt's grader with crystallised salt which has begun to set on the blade and corrode it, August 2019
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BA2840/1452: One of the crytalliser ponds at Onslow Salt covered with salt enriched water that has worked its way through the pondage system, August 2019
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BA2840/1453: The colours out on a crystalliser pond. The dark band is dead algae the wind has pushed to one end of the pond, August 2019
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BA2840/1454: "Pilbara snow" - the Onslow Salt salt stockpile, August 2019
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BA2840/1455: A hard crust forms over the salt stockpile which prevents erosion by wind and water
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BA2840/1456: A front end loader is used to crack the hard surface of the salt stockpile in preparation for loading onto the conveyer into the cleaning machine
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BA2840/1457: The Onslow Salt salt stockpile, August 2019
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BA2840/1458: The dozer driven by Ashley Roper pushes salt down the stockpile to a second machine loading salt onto a conveyor
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BA2840/1459: Inside the service centre at Onlsow Salt where the mechanics work in extreme heat, August 2019
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BA2840/1460: The day shift crew of diesel mechanics servicing a harvesting truck at Onslow Salt, August 2019
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BA2840/1461: The main building complex at Onslow Salt. The mechanics service centre, the science lab, an office and the crib (meal) room, August 2019
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BA2840/1462: Evening at the Onslow Salt loading jetty off Sunset Beach, Onslow, August 2019
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- Salt mines and mining -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
- Solar ponds -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
- Jetties -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
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