Glen Davis Shale Oil Works
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The Glen Davis Shale Oil Works was a shale oil extraction plant, in the Capertee Valley, at Glen Davis, New South Wales, Australia, which operated from 1940 until 1952. It was the last oil-shale opera
Ruins of Glen Davis Oil Shale Works, Nov 2014.
Sir George Davis (left) and Premier Mair (right, visiting Glen Davis in July 1940) aboard an electric locomotive, with mine adit at rear.
Retorts c.1947.
Retorts and shale conveyor from storage bins c.1947.
Oberon Dam
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Oberon Dam or Fish River Dam is a major ungated concrete slab and buttress with earth embankment dam comprising a concrete ski jump chute spillway and fuse plug across the Fish River upstream of Obero
Glen Davis Shale Oil Works
…but the water needed treatment. Water was a constraint on production in the early years. From March 1946, water was supplied to the works, from the Oberon Dam on the Fish River, by a 105 km long pipeline. This is a rare instance of water from the Murray-Darling catchment being diverted to a location that is…
Oberon Dam wall and reservoir, with fuse plug spillway in top right