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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.
Iron ore mining in Western Australia, in the financial year 2018–19, accounted for 54 percent of the total value of the state's resources exports, with a value of A$78.2 billion. The overall value of the mineral and petroleum industry in Western Australia was A$145 billion in 2018–19. [5]
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 2013. [23] Western Australia became the largest iron ore producer in the world in 2014. [21] Iron ore reached $100 billion in annual export value in 2020, the first commodity to do so. [21]
The Sanjiv Ridge mine, formerly the Corunna Downs mine is an iron ore mine operated by Atlas Iron and located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 33 kilometres (21 mi) south of Marble Bar and 240 kilometres (150 mi) from Port Hedland.
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)
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 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]
The Mesa J mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 16 kilometres south-west of Pannawonica. [1]The mine is owned by Robe River Iron Associates (53% Rio Tinto) and operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore and is one of twelve iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara.