Worsley Alumina - Refinery Complex

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The Worsley Alumina Refinery is named after the historic timber settlement of Worsley, near Collie in the south west corner of Western Australia. The history of the project goes back to the early 1960s when a group of local entrepreneurs formed a firm to explore, develop and sell deposits of bauxite ore on the eastern side of the Darling Range, near Boddington.

Construction of a mine site and refinery began in 1980 and the first alumina was produced in April 1984. These days Worsley Alumina is a joint-venture partnership between BHP Billiton (86%), Japan Alumina Associates (Australia) (10%) and Sojitz Alumina (4%).

One of its most interesting features is a fifty two km conveyor belt that carries the bauxite from its mine, north of the refinery, to it. It is believed to be one of the longest conveyor belts in the world.