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GEOLOGICAL SITES

AND LOCALITIES,

WITH THEIR POINTS

OF INTEREST

( O )

( Some collected sites and leads for geological

interests - particularly for ones close to Sydney. )

OLD TOONGABBIE

Ashfield Shale - Off Oakes Road. Portion 155, Parish of St. John. Production was as much as 70 tons per day or up to 500 tons per week in 1965. In 1965 Lite-Crete Aggregates Pty. Ltd. was interested in the material from here. This was presumably the "Lite-Crete P/L" which for a time ran an expanded aggregate manufacturing plant at Bennelong Road, Homebush Bay. Possibly commenced in the 1930s and continued till about 1967. (Ref: Mine Record, Quarry No. 639; MR 6136).

ORCHARD HILLS

Clay extraction for brickmaking.

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