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Iron ore mining in Western Australia, in the 2018–19 financial year, accounted for 54 percent of the total value of the state's resource production, with a value of A$78.2 billion. The overall value of the minerals and petroleum industry in Western Australia was A$145 billion in 2018–19, a 26 percent increase on the previous financial year.
Western Australian Gold production and value from 2000 to 2022. The history of gold mining in Western Australia dates back to the 1880s but took on some larger dimensions in the 1890s, after gold discoveries at Coolgardie in 1892 and Kalgoorlie in 1893. It reached an early peak in 1903, experienced a golden era in the 1930s and a revival in the ...
Iron ore mining began in 1951. [7] The first shipment of iron ore from the island was made in the vessel Iron Yampi, which was purpose-built at the Whyalla shipyard. [3] It was one of a fleet of four bulk-carriers built to transport the ore for smelting at Australian steelworks. The Iron Kimberley was another of them. [8]
An iron ore export ban was in place from 1938 to 24 November 1960. [23] In 1965, the first iron ore mine was operated at Goldsworthy in Western Australia. [24] Exports of iron ore began in the 1960s. [21] Iron ore production reached 100 million tonnes by the mid-1970s. [24] This figure doubled to 200 million tonnes in 2003, [21] and tripled by ...
The Karara mine is a large iron mine located in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Karara has estimated reserves of 2 billion tonnes of ore grading 35.5% iron metal. It is one of the few magnetite producers in Western Australia. It is owned by Ansteel Group (52.16%) and Gindalbie Metals (47.84%). [1]
Iron Baron; Iron Duke; Iron Knob, South Australia; Iron Monarch; Iron Prince; Peculiar Knob - mothballed by Arrium in 2015 [11] Port Adelaide (multi-commodity port, export port for Cairn Hill ore) Whyalla port and Whyalla Steelworks (Processing plant and export port for iron ore and steel products)
Mount Whaleback Iron Mine and the town of Newman from space, 2020 Iron ore mines in the Pilbara region. The Mount Whaleback deposit was discovered in 1957 by Stan Hilditch but not publicised until 1960, when the Australian Government lifted the embargo on iron ore exports it had put in place because of concerns the mineral was in short supply. [6]
Iron ore mining at Mount Jackson. As of 2008, the 605-hectare (1,490-acre) site was being mined for iron ore by Cliffs Asia Pacific Iron Ore Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Cliffs Natural Resources of Cleveland, Ohio. [4] Ore is trucked to Koolyanobbing via a haul road and then by rail to port at Esperance for export. The mine has an expected life of ...