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The Mount Whaleback mine, officially the Newman West operation, [1] is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, six kilometres west of Newman. [ 2 ] The mine is majority-owned (85 percent) [ 3 ] and operated by BHP , and is one of five iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara.
The Yarrie mine is serviced by the separate, shorter Goldsworthy railway. [10] Jimblebar is at the end of a 32 kilometre spur line of the Mount Newman railway. [3] Ore from the Mount Whaleback and the other Newman mines, as well as the Yandi mine is transported to the port at Nelson Point, while ore from Area C and Yarrie goes to Finucane Island.
The Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 mine, part of BHP's Eastern Ridge hub and officially referred to as the Newman East operation, [1] is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 8 kilometres east of Newman. [2] The mine is majority-owned (85 percent) [3] and operated by BHP, and is one of seven iron ore mines the company ...
Newman is also a service town to the nearby mining settlements like Tom Price and Paraburdoo. Electricity is supplied by Alinta from its 180 MW gas-fired power station with a 30MW/11MWh Kokam battery at Newman. The station also supplies the Roy Hill mine, [17] [18] with grid construction reaching the Cloudbreak and Christmas Creek mines. [19] [20]
BHP's operations in Newman date back to 1968, when the Mount Whaleback mine was opened, the biggest single open-pit iron ore mine in the world. A new town, Mount Newman, was constructed, as well as a 426 kilometre railway line, the Mount Newman railway.
The Roy Hill mine is an iron ore mine in the Chichester Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, located 115 kilometres (71 mi) north of Newman and 277 kilometres (172 mi) south of Port Hedland.
Pollard fell about 30 feet below the surface of where the mine would have sat and was found about 12 feet away from where the original sinkhole opened up, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Steve ...
This is a list of major active gold mines in Western Australia in 2022–23, according to the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety.To qualify for the department's official list of principal mining projects an operation has to either had mineral sales valued at more than $5 million (or more than 2,500 oz of gold), or, for operations where such figures are not reported, had a ...