Talk:Port Pirie

June 2006
I just removed the following from the article:


 * Port Pirie serves as one of the States largest cities. It is SOuth Australias fastest growing city due to the short distance between Adelaide and Port Pirie. Its population continues to grow with it being around 17,500 (2006). Its major industries are: The Zinifex Smelter, Agriculture, Metal Fabrication and Retail and Informational industries. It also serves as a large education centre for the district providing Pre Schools, Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Tertiary Education and Private Colleges for surrounding smaller towns. The largest and most prominent is John Pirie Secondary School which has roughly 600 students. the school has some of the towns best teachers. The town is serviced by the PPRC (Port Pirie Regional Council) which not only covers Port Pirie but other rural centres like Crystal Brook, Redhill, Napperby and Koolunga. The current mayor of the town is Geoff Brock he succeded former mayor Ken Madigan. Port Piries largest population was about 25,000 which was in the 1970's. It has a very large Italian and Greek community. a majority of nationalities in the town is Greek or Italian. There are centres for these nationalities Savoy and Virtus Centre (Italian) and the marvellous and exquisite freshly completed St George hellinic centre (Greek). The St George hellinic centre is the finest of the three of the centres and offers meals and drinks facilities.
 * The town also has large sporting facilities offering sports of all kinds. The town also has large religious facilities for Greek ORthodox, Catholics, Lutherans and many other religions. The retail industry boomed in 1981 with the opening of the Pirie Plaza offering Coles, Kmart and specialty shops. the town also offers Prests department stores which is privately owned.

There's some useful information here but it needs to be integrated into the article better. michael talk 11:01, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

External reference
That link was not working anymore, so I replaced it with a link to a map on the same Australian site. The person who put the link there originally, should check this and perhaps improve or replace.--Pan Gerwazy 18:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

The Bureau of Meteorolgy link and the Walkabout link did not work anymore either, so I replaced them. I did not know what the BoM link originally referred to, so I put both the tide and weather forecast. There is some additional info on the aerodrome ther, by the way. The Sydney Morning Herald link which Walkabout took me to also has some interesting information, eg about the place before European settlement, but I do not feel like including that into the article myself. I only came here to look up the pronunciation of "Port Pirie" - and I did not find that, by the way.--Pan Gerwazy 18:52, 2 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Thankyou. The BoM link would have been to climate averages, not recent weather observations, so I've added that too. Pronunciation - it's a short 'i' and a long 'ee' sound. I'll try to find the IPA codes later and add them. --Scott Davis Talk 10:25, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Retail
I deleted the retail section because it was useless and provided no useful information to the reader. Red under the bed
 * Thankyou. (sign with ~ or click the signature button above the edit box (10th from left). --Scott Davis Talk 14:30, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

The Stack
OMG. This article mentions nothing about 'The Stack' - the second largest tower in the Southern Hemisphere, and the reason (I assume) why google maps had high res satellite photos of Pirie when much of the rest of the state was low res.


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Umm, according to the List of chimneys The Stack has been surpassed many times here in Australia, so is no longer the second largest chimney in the southern hemispher. Lynx Raven Raide 10:05, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Railways
I think the railways description could use a refresh, it does not indicate that the railway station has been superseded (passenger trains now take on passengers at Coonamia 3 kms out of town) or that the station platform and environs have been transformed into the bus terminal, a world class visitors centre and railways museum/interpretive centre. this will be my first wikipedia editing attempt so please feel free to tighten up any language issues that arise. i will lso attempt to add my reference material but am not overly confident that i can link properly Gnafyes 01:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC)Andy (user Gnafyes)

March 2009 edit about politics...
... was reverted due to being rather POV. It also had no references. Freestyle-69 (talk) 10:00, 15 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Mmmmm. I'll have a go at rewriting it. If you still don't like it, feel free to revert it. Pdfpdf (talk) 12:40, 15 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Second thoughts: Feel free to improve it. Pdfpdf (talk) 13:45, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Ya, it had some facts in there amongst the other :)Freestyle-69 (talk) 21:37, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Refering to the schools bit
"Port Pirie is the main centre for the Mid North area. Many towns in the area rely on Port Pirie for shopping and employment. It also has many educational institutions such as John Pirie Secondary Schools (years 8-12), St Mark's College (Reception-year 12), many preschools and primary schools, Mid North Christian School (years 8-12) and a TAFE Campus (Adult Education)."

I attend Mid North Christian College. It does not have the word school anywhere in its name.

Also, it has students from reception to year 12, all together on one campus.

The site: http://www.midnorthcc.sa.edu.au/

I shall be back to correct this in a few days if no-one has anyissues with it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.26.48.48 (talk) 11:14, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Good job whoever changed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.26.118.52 (talk) 12:37, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Removed someones junk
Hey long time resident here :) I noticed some junk in the history section.

"The smelter was built in 1889, and it hired the biggest duff.His name was mick"can i get a lift"stenson.he was so good the had to show him evertihng three times.who eventualy became the mayor of port pirie.it became the biggest lead smelter in the world by 1934..."

I corrected it as:

"The smelter was built in 1889, it became the biggest lead smelter in the world by 1934..."

This page needs someone to look after it. It is clearly being corrupted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HourisDefender (talk • contribs) 18:03, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Whyalla, South Australia which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RM bot 10:30, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Inadequate info about the port
The article seems to be written from a residential perspective and in my view needs to be expanded to include industrial aspects - especially regarding the port as a transport hub. There is no mention about the development plan for recieving, storing and shipping the iron ore from Western Plains Resources, for instance. Nor is there any information about the capacity of the port, its shallow water nature, rail links and rail usage for industry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.187.231.88 (talk) 04:43, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Multiple dead links
In the list of heritage sites, refs #8 to #21 all point to the South Australian Heritage Register. All result in a "Runtime Error", a fault fixable only by the relevant South Australian Government department. Can someone please find some steps to plant a boot in the appropriate backside? Bjenks (talk) 04:47, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

World's largest lead smelter?
The article opens with "site of the world's largest lead smelter", but later says "the largest lead smelter/refinery in the southern hemisphere". Both claims are supposed to be supported with the archived citation: "Port Pirie Overview," which supports neither claim. "Port Pirie Smelter", which is the 2018 fact sheet, says "Port Pirie is one of the world’s largest primary lead smelting facilities". The 2018 fact sheets states that Port Pirie has a capacity of 170kt. Searching for "world's largest lead smelter" brings up "Korea Zinc to become world's largest lead smelter" dated 2016-01-25 that says Korea Zinc was the world's second largest lead smelting capacity, following China's Yuguang Smelting. Korea Zinc was upgrading their capacity from 300,000 tons to 430,000 per year. So, it appears that Pirie at 170,000 tons in 2017 is likely not the largest lead smelter. Rather than getting in to the "xxx is the world's largest" arguments, which will presumably change over time, perhaps we can just go with the 2017 capacity and state that Port Pirie is one of the world's largest? Cxbrx (talk) 16:13, 16 February 2019 (UTC)