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BA2840/1629: Shark Bay Salt crystalliser ponds viewed from the top of the wash plant, Useless Loop, September 2019
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BA2840/1630: The hoppers where trucks drop the salt which then goes up a conveyer belt into the wash plant, Useless Loop, 2019
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BA2840/1631: Ampo Bellottie, grader driver at Shark Bay Salt, Useless Loop, September 2019
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BA2840/1632: Amp Bellottie in his grader cleans up around the stockpile, Useless Loop, September 2019
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BA2840/1633: The Shark Bay Salt ship loader viewed from the base of the stockpile, Useless Loop, September 2019
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Useless Loop is a closed company town, with 70 employees and their families servicing the solar salt operation of Shark Bay Salt which was established in 1962 by Shark Bay Resources Ltd. A joint venture was formed in 1973 with Mitsui & Co. Ltd which acquired full ownership in 2005, incorporated as Shark Bay Salt Pty Ltd. In 2015.
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- Salt mines and mining -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
- Solar ponds -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
- Company towns -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
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