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Baerami Creek is a locality in the Muswellbrook Shire in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. Part of the locality lies in a part of the valley of the watercourse of the same name, Baerami Creek.
The area now known as Baerami Creek lies on the traditional lands of Wonnarua people.Baerami Creek has a deposit of oil shale, which was reputedly the largest in New South Wales and around twice the size of that at Glen Davis. It was accessible from the Baerami Creek valley and lay relatively close to the Merriwa railway line at Sandy Hollow. The location of the deposit was often referred to as 'Baerami', but it actually lies to the south of that adjacent locality. The deposit extends to the west, where it also outcrops in the valley of Widden Brook, at the locality now known as Widden Valley.
The presence of oil shale in the area was known from around 1901. The first attempts to exploit the oil shale date from around 1915, but did not progress. Various small tunnels were dug into the shale deposit, but it was only in 1925 that a retort was set up by Mr. Jaeger of the Muswellbrook-Baerami Shale Syndicate, and the first oil was made from Baerami Creek oil shale. That operation ended around 1927.In the period from 1929 to 1934, two companies, Widden-Baerami Shale Oil and Coal Ltd and Bearami South Shale and Oil Co. Ltd, had leases in the area and carried out testing of shale, with some developmental mining.
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