Day 6: 22/8/25, Chilligoe.
Day 6: 22/8/25, Chilligoe. We spent today touring around the historic mining site of Chilligoe and visiting some of the rock formations in the nearby area. The site itself is not accessible due to contamination issues but there are some excellent viewing area's and plenty of information plaques. Was very hot walking around so had to keep the water bottles handy. Intricate brick work of one of the smelter chimney’s Slag heap which no doubt contains a lot of minerals due to the poor efficiency of the processing techniques of the time. Unfortunately, it also contains high concentrations of asbestos and other contaminants. No doubt AI robots will process this eventually. Yes, it’s a very flat heap as they used railway cars to dump the slag, moving them around to keep the pile flat. Walsh River valley, Chilligoe is on the edge of a fault between the ancient lands and the great marine basin and is surrounded by giant limestone depos...