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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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    Rio Tinto allocated a further A$1.24 billion in early December 2010, to expand the Brockman 4 mine to 40 million tonnes per annum, from 22, as well as develop its Western Turner Syncline project, raising planned production there from 6 to 15 million tonnes, with the aim of increasing the Pilbara production to 283 million tonnes per annum by ...

  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. Rio Tinto cuts 2021 iron ore shipments forecast on ... - AOL

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    MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Rio Tinto Group on Friday reduced its 2021 iron ore shipments forecast, as a tighter labour market in Western Australia delayed the completion of a new greenfield mine at ...

  6. Former Rio Tinto mine at Bougainville poses flood risk - report

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    Communities around Rio Tinto's shuttered copper mine in Bougainville face a serious threat of flooding due to unstable mine instrastructure, an interim report commissioned by the mining company ...

  7. Mount Tom Price mine - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Aboriginal elders suspend Rio Tinto site survey over heritage ...

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    Rio Tinto conducted a visit to the Nammuldi site last weekend with representatives of the Muntulgura Guruma people after a blast on Aug. 6 led to the fall of a Pilbara scrub tree and one square ...

  9. Nammuldi mine - Wikipedia

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    The mine is located near the Brockman mine, also operated by Rio Tinto. [2] Rio Tinto briefly had to close the mine in February 2009, alongside Brockman, because of heavy rain and floods in the region. [11] From October 2015 all of the ore trucks on the site, and those at Yandicoogina mine are remotely controlled from Perth, 1,200 kilometres ...