Whyalla Visitors Centre

Is located on the Lincoln Highway at the northern entrance to Whyalla, next to the landlocked ship, the former HMAS Whyalla.

The Visitor Centre is open from 9:00am – 5:00pm Monday to Friday, 9:30am – 4:00pm on weekends and Public Holidays.

One Steel Mine Tours

Tours of the OneSteel Whyalla Steelworks are now back!

Public Tours are available Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from 9:30am and return at 11:30am. Tours depart from the Whyalla Visitor Centre and bookings are essential.

Cost: Adults $18; Children (6-16 years) $8; Concession $16.50; Family (2 Adults & 2 Children) $44; Extra children $4. Children under six years of age will need to share a seat with a parent, or guardian.

Steelworks Tour Highlights: Hear the story behind over 100 years of significant Australian Iron and Steelmaking history, and the $350 million OneSteel Project Magnet. As you travel in air-conditioned comfort around the 1000-hectare steelworks site your guide will explain the technology of how Hematite and Magnetite iron ore from the nearby South Middleback Ranges at Iron Duke is transformed into over 90 different grades of steel. Depending on production and maintenance schedules you will get to see different parts of the process operating. Your tour will take you past the Blast Furnace, Wharf, Coke Ovens, Reed Beds, Steelmaking and Casting Plant and the Rolling Mills, where they make structural steel, rail line and steel railway sleeper sections. You will also see and experience world class technological and safety achievements, and over $100 million in environmental initiatives. Due to safety requirements, passengers will remain on the bus in air-conditioned comfort during the tour. Unless otherwise advised, still and video cameras are not permitted to be used on the tour.