Port Spencer
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Port Spencer South Australia |
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 Port Spencer
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| Coordinates | 34°23′S 136°18′E / 34.383°S 136.300°ECoordinates: 34°23′S 136°18′E / 34.383°S 136.300°E | ||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5607 | ||||||||
| Elevation | 15 m (49 ft) | ||||||||
| Location | 65 km (40 mi) North of Port Lincoln | ||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Tumby Bay | ||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Flinders | ||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey | ||||||||
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Port Spencer was a proposed bulk commodities port development project in South Australia, previously known as Sheep Hill. It would have been located on lower Eyre Peninsula, on the western shore of Spencer Gulf. The project was conceived by Centrex Metals Ltd for the export of iron ore from prospective iron ore deposits at Wilgerup and in the hills of Koppio on Lower Eyre Peninsula. The port project was also dependent on the approval of the Fusion Magnetite Project, which was a joint venture partnership between Centrex Metals Ltd and Wuhan Iron & Steel (Group) Co, a Chinese government steelmaking enterprise. Pending mine and port project environmental approvals and adequate capital investment, the port would have been built by Centrex Metals Ltd.
The site for Port Spencer is located at Sheep Hill and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of the town of Tumby Bay. The port could be served by a 27-kilometre (17 mi) narrow gauge branchline from Ungarra on the Eyre Peninsula Railway.Lipson Cove lies immediately to the south with the proposed wharf structure 1.5 kilometres north of Lipson Island Conservation Park.
Swaffers Road was marked to become a future haul road. The company's favoured method for the long-term transport of ore to the port is via a slurry pipeline.
A desalination plant capable of producing of 5-20 gigalitres of water per year would have been required to provide the water necessary to transport the ore in a slurry to the Port Spencer site. Once the ore is dewatered, it would be loaded onto conveyors, along a 500-metre (1,600 ft) jetty and onto capesize bulk carrier vessels.
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