
https://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2015/11/25/alliance-does-big-fokker-deal-with-austrian-for-21-rare-jets/
"GAFA" below

CP Mining, Cape Preston (near Karratha) below. That grey hole in the ground will get a lot bigger in years to come! The processing plant (magnetite) is huge! This is the mob that Clive Palmer has been having a argument with over royalties. Oh, and one has to wear a respirator on-site due to there being asbestos in the ore - real fun in high 30's/low 40's heat!

Not aviation related (except for my mode of transport to and from these sites), this is one machine I was working on - a AG mill below. This baby has a 28 MW (that's mega watt folks) drive and can hold something like 1500 tonne of ore. It's job is to turn large rocks into much small rocks basically. I work on the load (weight) measurement systems on such mills - if there's too much load in the mill, they trip out on high current and that is a BIG problem! It means digging them out with the resultant loss of production.

Steel making at Liberty Onesteel in Whyalla. Onesteel (make structural steel) has a new Indian owner and he's planning on building up Onesteel which is great news for Whyalla - which would largely have died without such investment. This pic below shows just where the pig iron from the blast furnace is poured into the "convertor" where it becomes steel. It's the most awesome industrial process I think. Argon and oxygen is pumped into the pig iron and additives like aluminium, nickel, etc, etc are added to make the desired type of steel. Those ladles contain about 200 tonne of molten pig iron when full.
