Leigh Creek

Leigh Creek

      town and coalfield, east-central South Australia, 350 miles (563 km) by rail north of Adelaide. The original town was named for Harry Leigh, an employee at the local sheep station in the 1850s. Lignite coal, discovered there in 1888, was mined underground from 1892 to 1908 and then abandoned until 1941, when wartime shortages forced the government to explore the possibilities of reopening the field. By 1944 commercial quantities of coal were being extracted again. The opencut mines were taken over by the Electricity Trust of South Australia in 1948, which developed them as the fuel source for large power generators in Port Augusta. The town was established in 1941, and in 1981 it was moved 8 miles (13 km) south to enable the mining of coal beneath the old town. Although the coal field still has large reserves, only a small part of it is likely to be mined, because most of the coal is too deep to be recovered economically. In addition to large coal reserves, magnesite, gypsum, ochre, and pigment clays are worked locally. Fossil deposits of soft-bodied marine animals at Ediacara Reserve and Lake Callabonna are of worldwide interest. Pop. (2006) 548.

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