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  2. Western Australian radioactive capsule incident - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Iron ore mining in Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    The first mine in the Pilbara, the Goldsworthy mine, was developed in 1965 by Mount Goldsworthy Mining Associates, a joint venture between the British-owned Consolidated Goldfields (Aust) Pty Ltd, Cyprus Mines Corporation of Los Angeles, and Utah Construction & Mining Company of San Francisco. [22]

  4. West Angelas mine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Nammuldi mine - Wikipedia

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    The ore is processed on site before being loaded onto rail. [9] Ore from the mine is then transported to the coast through the Hamersley & Robe River railway, where it is loaded onto ships. [10] The mine's workforce is on a fly-in fly-out roster. [9] The mine is located near the Brockman mine, also operated by Rio Tinto. [2]

  6. Koolyanobbing, Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    Koolyanobbing is located in the Shire of Yilgarn, Western Australia, 54 km (34 mi) north-northeast of the town of Southern Cross. Iron ore has been mined there since 1948 by a series of companies, with a break between 1983 and 1993, and since 2024.

  7. Mount Tom Price mine - Wikipedia

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    The mine has an annual production capacity of 28 million tonnes of iron ore, sourced from open-pit operations. The ore is processed on site before being loaded onto rail. [ 9 ] Ore from Mount Tom Price, like Brockman , Paraburdoo , Channar , Eastern Range , Marandoo and Yandicoogina are transported as lump and fines ore product from the mines ...

  8. Marandoo mine - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Eastern Range mine - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Range mine is an iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 10 kilometres south-east of Paraburdoo. [ 1 ] The mine is partly owned and operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore and is one of twelve iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara.