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Pilbara Minerals was founded in January 2005 as Portland International. [1] It commenced trading in August as an internet and telephone sports bookmaker . Having been renamed Marginbet in April 2007, it was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in September 2007.
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.
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]
Less than a year after it reopened, due to softening global demand, tantalum mining operations ceased at the end of February 2012. [5] In July 2010, Atlas commenced production at the Wodgina mine. The company planned to lift production from its Pilbara operations to 20 million tonnes of iron ore by 2012, up from 6.5 million tonnes in late 2010.
The Cloudbreak mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 89 kilometres west-south-west of Nullagine, in the Chichester Range. [1]The mine is fully owned and operated by the Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) and is one of four iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara, the others being Christmas Creek mine (located 50 kilometres east of Cloudbreak [2]) and ...
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The Pilbara (/ ˈ p ɪ l b ər ə /) is a large, dry, sparsely populated region in the north of Western Australia.It is known for its Aboriginal people; its ancient landscapes; the prevailing red earth; and its vast mineral deposits, in particular iron ore.
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