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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 ...
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]
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 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]
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, 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.
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 ...
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.