Dry Creek Salt Pans (Adelaide)
Australia /
South Australia /
Adelaide
World
/ Australia
/ South Australia
/ Adelaide
World / Australia / South Australia
Average production: 285 000 tpa
Cheetham Salt Limited
The Dry Creek salt pans are located 12 km NW of Adelaide. Imperial
Chemical Industries (ICI) began saltproduction at Dry Creek in 1940. The
original area of operations was 810 ha, which has steadily increased to the
4000 ha in use today.
ICI sold the operation to Penrice Soda Products in 1989. In 2005 they were purchased by
Ridley Corporation Limited and are now operated by Ridley’s wholly owned subsidiary, Cheetham Salt.
Cheetham’s tenements stretch from Dry Creek to St Kilda Beach and further northward to
Webb Beach at Port Parham. Two pumping stations, located at Middle Beach and Chapman’s Creek, pump salt water along the coast to the crystallising area. Harvested salt is redissolved and pumped to Penrice Soda Holdings Limited’s Osborne plant for the manufacture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. Limestone from the Penrice Quarry near Angaston is used with the salt for the Solvay process.
Cheetham Salt Limited
The Dry Creek salt pans are located 12 km NW of Adelaide. Imperial
Chemical Industries (ICI) began saltproduction at Dry Creek in 1940. The
original area of operations was 810 ha, which has steadily increased to the
4000 ha in use today.
ICI sold the operation to Penrice Soda Products in 1989. In 2005 they were purchased by
Ridley Corporation Limited and are now operated by Ridley’s wholly owned subsidiary, Cheetham Salt.
Cheetham’s tenements stretch from Dry Creek to St Kilda Beach and further northward to
Webb Beach at Port Parham. Two pumping stations, located at Middle Beach and Chapman’s Creek, pump salt water along the coast to the crystallising area. Harvested salt is redissolved and pumped to Penrice Soda Holdings Limited’s Osborne plant for the manufacture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. Limestone from the Penrice Quarry near Angaston is used with the salt for the Solvay process.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Creek,_South_Australia
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 34°48'46"S 138°34'36"E
- Adelaide OBahn 3.8 km
- Pacific National Adelaide 4.7 km
- Torrens Island Power Station 5.5 km
- Black Hill Conservation Park 12 km
- Anstey Hill Recreation Park 13 km
- DSTO - Defence Science & Technology Organisation 13 km
- Castambul 17 km
- Evanston South 24 km
- Lyndoch 36 km
- Wolf Blass Winery 59 km
- City of Port Adelaide Enfield 1.1 km
- Kilburn 4.8 km
- City of Salisbury 5.7 km
- Enfield 6.1 km
- Port Adelaide River 6.2 km
- Islington 6.2 km
- Croydon Park 7.6 km
- City of Prospect 8.3 km
- Collinswood 8.6 km
- City of Charles Sturt 11 km
Comments