Kambalda, Australia, Australia
Year 1966 latitude: ° 0' longitude: ° 0' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants Target population Town website Town related links http://www.nullarbornet.com.au/towns/kambalda.html Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
The Pilbara region in the north-west Australia has several smaller postwar mining settlements which are interesting especially because of their remoteness from civilization. A warning from geologist in the 1930s that Australia could exhaust its iron ore ressources made the Commonwealth Government impose an embargo on the export of this. As the export of iron ore got allowed again in the 50s, Rio Tinto mining was the main industry to replace the dependence on rural products in Western Australia. Kambalda was grounded in 1887 as gold was found there and The Red Hill Goldmine established. In 1907 the mine was closed down, and the city continued as a ghost town until in 1954 a new element was found, later identified as nickel, and by 1966 Western Mining Corporation had established Australia's first nickel mine. Today the city is divided into Kambalda East and Kambalda West, the former built between 1967-73; the latter more recently. source:
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