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Redcar Bulk Terminal (RBT), also known as Redcar Ore Terminal, is a privately run dock at the mouth of the Tees Estuary in North Yorkshire, England.The port is used for the transhipment of coal and coke (both inward and outward flows) and for many years was the import dock for iron ore destined for Redcar Steelworks under British Steel Corporation, British Steel plc, Corus, Tata Steel Europe ...
This would be over the whole life of the project. [12] To avoid damaging aquifers across the route, the tunnel is designed to stay deep within the Redcar Mudstone Formation. [13] The Redcar Mudstone Formation is less permeable to water and the route also avoids any former ironstone workings in the Redcar and Cleveland area. [14]
The Times said that the project was the "biggest mining project Britain has seen in decades". [22] Orders for the mineral have already been agreed with third-party distributors in America and South-East Asia to receive 1,500,000 tonnes (1,700,000 tons) and 750,000 tonnes (830,000 tons) respectively each year.
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The 365ft (111m) high blast furnace at the former Redcar steelworks has been demolished – changing one of the best known skylines in the North East of England.
The creation of South Gare extends this by a further 2.5 miles (4.0 km). [1] [2] The fishing community. The building of South Gare offers a safe harbour in stormy weather to ships off the coast and allowed for the dredging of the River Tees entrance. [3] South Gare itself was a settlement but the houses there were demolished many years ago.
In the late 1970s, the General Terminus Quay was replaced by the purpose-built deep-water Hunterston Ore Terminal, near West Kilbride, which became operational in 1978. [7] It was designed to accept bulk ore carriers of up to 350,000 tonnes capacity. [7] In the early 1980s the ore-handling equipment was demolished at General Terminus Quay.
Teesside Wind Farm, or alternatively referred to as Redcar Wind Farm, is a 27 turbine 62 MW capacity offshore wind farm constructed just to the east of the mouth of the River Tees and 1.5 km north of Redcar off the North Yorkshire coast, in the North Sea, England. Construction of the windfarm began in February 2011 and was complete by June 2013.