Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Mining of Oil Shale at Joadja Creek and Glen Davis
- In
- 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, 1998, pp. 181-186
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1858256843
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.547287039009016
- Abstract
The oil shale operations at Joadja Creek and Glen Davis were two of Australia's most successful. Mining at Joadja Creek commenced in 1873 and continued for almost 30 years before closure of the operations in 1905. Attempts to reopen the mines after this time resulted in only minimal activity. Joadja Creek was well on the way to becoming the heritage site it is today. At Glen Davis, the major period of mining commenced in 1938 and continued until 1952. Earliest mining at Joadja Creek was essentially 'pick and shovel' with near horizontal adits driven into the side of the hills. Later, when mining operations were under the auspices of the Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company, operations were more systematic and mechanised; small drives were taken off the main adits at approximately 60 A (18.3 intervals). Later, the air-operated Gartsherrie cutter was used to undercut the thin sections of the oil shale thus facilitating extraction. At Glen Davis, mining followed the same style as coal mining - mechanised bord and pillar with later extraction of the pillars.
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- 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings edited by Martin, Ray L (Melbourne, Vic.: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1998), 213 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.1858256843. Details