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Port Pirie

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Port Pirie (pĭr`ē), city (1991 pop. 14,110), South Australia, S Australia, on an inlet of Spencer Gulf. It is a railroad center and has uranium refineries and smelting works for the silver-lead mines at Broken Hill. Silver-lead ore and refined lead are exported.
Port Pirie 

a city in Australia, in the state of South Australia. Population, 15,500 (1971). A port on Spencer Gulf, it is an important station of the Trans-Australian Railway. Industries include the crude smelting of lead and silver using concentrates from the ore-dressing plant in Broken Hill. Zinc concentrates are exported.



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TENNIS: Glasgow's Jamie Bakerlost 6-2 6-4 to Australian Matthew Ebden in the Final of the ITF Futures event in Port Pirie, Australia.
Qualifier Pratt had beaten Mauresmo just once in five meetings - and that was way back in 1995 at an obscure event in Port Pirie, Australia.
In South Australia, the publication in 1991 of the last volume of Margaret Press's history of the dioceses of Adelaide and Port Pirie was followed by a flurry of local Catholic histories.
 
 
 
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