page_title: Three Springs, Western Australia
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Three Springs, Western Australia / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: Commercial Hotel, cnr Railway Rd and Thomas St, Three Springs, Western Australia. Building extant in 2019.
context_page_description: Three Springs is located 313 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia on the Midlands Road, which until the opening of the Brand Highway in 1975 was the main road route from Perth to the state's north. The town is the seat of the Shire of Three Springs. Its economy is based on agriculture and mining.
context_section_description: Three Springs' economy is built on mining and agriculture, including broad acre grain cropping and sheep farming, as well as cattle, pigs and wildflower intensive farming.
  Imerys S.A. a French industrial minerals company, operates the world's second largest talc mine just outside the Three Springs townsite. Up until 2004, the talc was railed to Geraldton for export. As a result of contamination from iron ore at the port rail unload facility, since 2004 it has been transported by road.
caption: Commercial Hotel, ca.1925
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