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The capsule was being transported 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) from Rio Tinto's Gudai-Darri iron ore mine near Newman to a depot in the Perth suburb of Malaga. The Department of Fire and Emergency Services announced to the public on 27 January that the capsule had gone missing, and that the capsule was potentially deadly and could cause burns and ...
Gudai-Darri mine: Rio Tinto: Shire of East Pilbara: 43 2022 ... Employees (all personnel on site) 65,454 76,150 78,974 Notes ^[1] Full time employees only. Up until ...
In January 2023, the company announced that it had misplaced a capsule of radioactive material that was being transported from their Gudai-Darri mine in Western Australia. The capsule is a 8 by 6 mm cylinder containing a 19-gigabecquerel caesium-137 ceramic source. [151] It has the capability of causing serious illness if it is not handled ...
A mining company dropped a tiny capsule of caesium-137 somewhere along an 870-mile stretch of Western Australia’s Great Northern Highway. The plan is to find it before someone gets hurt, Liam ...
The area is also within the range of iron ore mine operations, consisting of the Christmas Creek, Cloudbreak and Gudai-Darri mine. [2] [3] [full citation needed] [4] [full citation needed] [5] [6] The area is also regularly visited and issues assessed due to the sensitivity of the area and its geomorphology. [7] [8] [9]
In 2009, the mine employed 989 people, an increase in comparison to 2008, when it only employed 867. [11] West Angelas is the site of Rio Tinto's "Mine of the future" project. The mine operates automated trucks, automated rockbreakers, automated drills and blasts, which are controlled from a Perth operations centre rather than local operators ...
Oct. 31—Darri Cadwallader is scheduled for sentencing on three felony counts of grand theft Dec. 18 in 2nd District Court in Grangeville. Because of a Tribune error, a story last week ...
The mine itself began operations in 2006, during a time when Rio Tinto increased the production output of its mines in the Pilbara due to increased demands. [8] The mine has an annual production capacity of 6.6 million tonnes of iron ore, sourced from open-pit operations. The ore is processed on site before being loaded onto rail. [9]