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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.
Production of iron ore in Western Australia in 2018–19 was 794 million tonnes (1.8 trillion pounds), down on the previous year's 839 million tonnes (1.8 trillion pounds) of ore, however due to improved iron ore prices, sales of $78.2 billion were up 26 per cent on the previous year, setting a new record for iron ore sales values.
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 ...
Prior to the Atlas series, there were dated maps without text or indexes.. 1906 [2] The 1906 map created by Maitland Brown was a major accomplishment to tie in the range of mineral fields and administrative issues regarding mining in the state, when technology had not conquered distances and logistic issues in updating information about discoveries or mines.
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]
The Pilbara operations accounted for almost 13 percent of the world's 2009 iron ore production of 1,590,000,000 tonnes (1.56 × 10 9 long tons; 1.75 × 10 9 short tons). [6] [7] The Hamersley Range, where the mine is located, contains 80 percent of all identified iron ore reserves in Australia and is one of the world's major iron ore provinces. [8]
Iron ore mines in the Pilbara region. The first iron ore mine to be developed in the Pilbara was the Goldsworthy mine in 1965. It was supported by a railway line, the Goldsworthy railway, as well as port facilities at Finucane Island. On 1 June 1966, the first shipment of iron ore left the Pilbara on board Harvey S. Mudd. [7]
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)