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Goldsworthy (named after the geographical feature Mount Goldsworthy) is a former mining town in Western Australia, east of Port Hedland and located in the Shire of East Pilbara. It was the first [1] iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Paraburdoo mine aerial Plant, Brockman 4 mine Jaspillite (banded iron formation) specimen from the Ord-Ridley Ranges, Pardoo, Pilbara. Most of Australia's iron ore is mined in the Pilbara, with mines mostly centred around Tom Price and Newman. The iron ore industry employs 9,000 people from the Pilbara area.
English: Map of the iron ore mines & railways in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Date: 19 January 2016: ... File:Iron_ore_Pilbara.jpg (old JPG-Version from 2010)
The Jimblebar mine is part of another expansion project, launched in 2010 and aimed at increasing production from the Pilbara mines to 240 million tonnes of iron ore annually by 2013. The expansion of Jimlebar, together with an expansion of the inner harbour at Port Hedland and works on the duplication of rail tracks is estimated to cost A$2 ...
The Paraburdoo mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, near Paraburdoo. [1] The mine is owned and operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore, and is one of twelve iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara. [2] [3] In 2009, the combined Pilbara operations produced 202 million tonnes of iron ore, a 15% increase ...
The Pardoo mine was an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 75 kilometres east of Port Hedland. [ 1 ] The mine was fully owned and operated by Atlas Iron and was, at the time of commencement of production, the company's only operational mine.
The company also operates two port facilities at Port Hedland, Nelson Point and Finucane Island, and over 1,000 kilometres of rail in the Pilbara. [4] BHP is the second-largest iron ore mining company in the Pilbara, behind Rio Tinto and ahead of Fortescue Metals Group. [5] As of 2010, BHP employs 8,000 people in its Pilbara operations. [4]
Iron ore mines in the Pilbara region. Rio Tinto's iron ore operations in the Pilbara began in 1966, [2] with the Mount Tom Price mine opening that year. Mount Tom Price was the company's first mine to open in the Pilbara. [8] The mine has an annual production capacity of 28 million tonnes of iron ore, sourced from open-pit operations.