Bottles dunes the park's central zone

the park's central zone

had become the largest domestic water pumping station in Australia

Tiered excavation terraces step down through the dolerite walls of Hornsby Quarry

sitting vacant for nearly a decade before demolition in 2018

Australia's largest crude steel production plant

Bottles dunes the park's central zoneGlass bottles line a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's crumbling structures, left behind when the last resident walked out in September 2006. Chichibu Mine and the company town built around it sustained families for decades before metal extraction ceased in 1978 and the settlement slowly emptied. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.