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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Gudai-Darri mine: Rio Tinto: Shire of East Pilbara: 43 2022
The capsule was being transported 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) from Rio Tinto's Gudai-Darri iron ore mine near Newman to a depot in the Perth suburb of Malaga. The Department of Fire and Emergency Services announced to the public on 27 January that the capsule had gone missing, and that the capsule was potentially deadly and could cause burns and ...
In 2009, the mine employed 989 people, an increase in comparison to 2008, when it only employed 867. [11] West Angelas is the site of Rio Tinto's "Mine of the future" project. The mine operates automated trucks, automated rockbreakers, automated drills and blasts, which are controlled from a Perth operations centre rather than local operators ...
In January 2023, the company announced that it had misplaced a capsule of radioactive material that was being transported from their Gudai-Darri mine in Western Australia. The capsule is a 8 by 6 mm cylinder containing a 19-gigabecquerel caesium-137 ceramic source. [151] It has the capability of causing serious illness if it is not handled ...
The mine is fully owned and operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore and is one of seventeen iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2009, the combined Pilbara operations produced 202 million tonnes (450 billion pounds) of iron ore, a 15 percent increase from 2008. [ 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.
The Nammuldi mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 60 kilometres north-west of Tom Price. [ 1 ] The mine is fully owned and operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore and is one of seventeen iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara.
Dampier Mining Co Ltd, a subsidiary of BHP, mined iron ore at Koolyanobbing between 1967 and 1983. [5] The town's population peaked at nearly 500 in the early 1980s. [3] Ore was shipped by rail to Kwinana, near Perth, to supply Australian Iron & Steel's (also a BHP subsidiary) blast furnace. The closure of the Kwinana blast furnace in 1982 ...