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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 ...
The area is also within the range of iron ore mine operations, consisting of the Christmas Creek, Cloudbreak and Gudai-Darri mine. [2] [3] [full citation needed] [4] [full citation needed] [5] [6] The area is also regularly visited and issues assessed due to the sensitivity of the area and its geomorphology. [7] [8] [9]
A mining company dropped a tiny capsule of caesium-137 somewhere along an 870-mile stretch of Western Australia’s Great Northern Highway. The plan is to find it before someone gets hurt, Liam ...
English: A yarning circle at the Gudai-Darri mine camp in the Pilbara, Western Australia. the dual-language signs are in English and Banjima, the language of the local Aboriginal people. Date Taken on 12 January 2024, 11:09:09
Aboriginal mining companies have been able to secure contracts with the big international mining companies. In 2007, BHP Billiton awarded a A$300 million contract to Ngarda Civil and Mining, an Aboriginal-owned company, to manage the Yarrie mine, the largest ever mining contract awarded to an Aboriginal company.
Oct. 31—Darri Cadwallader is scheduled for sentencing on three felony counts of grand theft Dec. 18 in 2nd District Court in Grangeville. Because of a Tribune error, a story last week ...
The mine, alongside the rail, is within a narrow corridor that splits Karijini National Park into a northern and a southern half. [2] 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.