Our Year 11 Geography students visited Alcoa’s Huntly Mine earlier this Term, to study the production and consumption of bauxite.
Huntly Mine is the second largest bauxite mine in the world.
The students used Alcoa as a case study to explore the economic transformation taking place in the world due to globalisation and the spatial outcomes of these processes, plus their political and social consequences.
Teacher Sara Tyrrell said the excursion provided an opportunity to observe first-hand the advances in transport and telecommunications technologies on the mine site.
Students also examined Alcoa’s award-winning restoration program.