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Twilight Whyalla Steelworks Tour
Things To Do Whyalla, Whyalla, South Australia
Half Day or Less
Discover over a century of Australia’s rich iron and steelmaking heritage through behind-the-scenes stories and experiences.
The Whyalla Steelworks is a fully integrated facility — from mining raw materials to delivering finished steel products.
Each year, the plant produces around 1.2 million tonnes of raw steel. About 65% of this is transported by rail to Market Mills in billet form for further processing, while the remainder is finished on-site at the Whyalla Rolling Mill. These finished products support key sectors such as construction and rail transport.
Guided tours of the steelworks are available every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9:30 am (excluding public holidays).
Bookings are essential and can be made online or by contacting the Whyalla Visitor Centre. All tours depart from the Whyalla Visitor Centre on the Lincoln Highway.
Services
From $25 to $29
Join a unique bus tour through the 1000-hectare, Whyalla Steelworks site and hear the story behind over a century of significant Australian iron and steel-making history. Learn how it is produced today into over 90 different grades of steel.
Depending on production and maintenance schedules you will get to see different parts of the process operating around the 1000 hectare site. Your tour will take you past the blast furnace, coke ovens, reed beds, steelmaking and casting plant and the rolling mills, where structural steel, rail line and steel railway sleeper sections are made.
Your guide will explain how hematite and magnetite iron ore from the nearby South Middleback Ranges at Iron Duke is transformed into over 90 different grades of steel.
Please note that closed-in shoes are required.
Bookings are essential.
Steelworks Tours do not operate on public holidays.
Disabled Access
Carpark Non Smoking
