Oil shale outcrops at places over a wide area of New South Wales, to the east of the watershed of the Great Dividing Range.
/ Owner operation ('Bathgate' lay on Dr Mackenzie's property, about a mile from the Main Western railway line at the point where it passed through the original Marrangaroo tunnel.
(14 miles from Wollar, near Lue) / Molesworth 1937 1941-1942 (Crown Ridge Mine) (then called 'Mornington') Operation 1940-1952 / Gore Bay Operation 1911-1915 / 'Petrolea Vale Company' (near Katoomba) Edward Carter / George Larkin / Parbury, Lamb & Co In 1880, a 14 km long narrow-gauge railway was opened to connect the incline with the Main South railway at Mittagong.
[133] Mittagong Shale Products / Mackenzie Brothers early 1870s / Nellies Glen / Narrow Neck / T.S Mort mined out, closed down, and tramway tracks lifted.
American Creek Operation 1911-1915 later Australian Shale Oil Corporation Ltd. Operation 1911-1913 (managed by John Fell) (previously called 'The Gullies', later called Glen Davis, on the southern side of the Capertee Valley, south-east of Glen Alice) (See also Airly) (managed by John Fell) (Botany Rd) Queensland has the largest deposits of oil shale in Australia.
After that time, the adverse environmental consequences of mining and processing the shale became increasingly significant to public acceptance and government approval.
[244][245][246] Despite much effort and time, and experiments with different retorting processes, the industry in Tasmania proved not to be economically-viable, under the prevailing circumstances and without the government support that did not eventuate.