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Field trip: South Burnie Bulk Stores

On May 17, member Wayne Licht guided us through two buildings owned by his firm. First was a large area destined soon to be filled with 60,000 tonnes of iron ore trucked in from Venture Minerals’ Riley mine.

This ore will then be loaded onto a ship for export. Venture aim to move two million tonnes through this store over the next two years. We then moved outside to view a loader used to move potatoes into the other bulk store.

south burnie bulk store
Store for 60 kt of iron ore
south burnie bulk store
Loader for potatoes

Wayne then opened the door to the potato store; actually two storage areas side-by-side.

Up to 10,000 tonnes can be stored here for around 7 months.

The whole area is temperature and humidity controlled and sensors control the amount of CO2 emitted by the potatoes.

south burnie bulk store
Potato store
south burnie bulk store
Potato store