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Newman, originally named Mount Newman until 1981, is a town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is located about 1,186 kilometres (737 mi) north of Perth, and 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) north of the Tropic of Capricorn. It can be reached by the Great Northern Highway. Newman is a modern mining town, with homes contrasting with the ...
The Mount Newman railway runs for 426 kilometres, from Newman to Port Hedland, and is one of Australia's longest private railways. The line, along with its spur lines to Mount Whaleback , Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 , Jimblebar , Yandi and Area C , services the iron ore mines at Newman.
Newman Airport (IATA: ZNE, ICAO: YNWN) is an airport near Newman, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, situated 5.5 nautical miles (10.2 km; 6.3 mi) southeast [2] of the town. The airport is owned and maintained by the Shire of East Pilbara . [ 4 ]
Newman Senior High School is a government comprehensive secondary school located in Newman, a regional centre 1,186 kilometres (737 mi) north of Perth, Western Australia. Established in 1971, the school enrolled 284 students in 2018, from Year 8 to Year 12 ; of whom 30 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 28 percent of whom were ...
The Mount Whaleback mine, officially the Newman West operation, [1] is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, six kilometres west of Newman. [2] The mine is majority-owned (85 percent) [3] and operated by BHP, and is one of five iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara.
Newman: Western Australia Originally named Mount Newman until 1981. 1967 Exmouth: Western Australia 1968 Karratha: Western Australia 1969 Moranbah: Queensland 1970 Ravenswood: Western Australia 1971 Nhulunbuy: Northern Territory [29] 1972 Shay Gap: Western Australia Former mining town. Closed in 1994. 1973 Dysart: Queensland 1980s Joondalup ...
The Goldsworthy railway, owned and operated by BHP, is a private rail network in the Pilbara region of Western Australia built to carry iron ore. It is one of two railway lines BHP operates in the Pilbara, the other being the Mount Newman railway. [1] In addition to the BHP network, there are three more independent iron ore rail lines in the ...
Earlier, in June 2004, the council had received an application from FMG to use of part of BHP's Mount Newman railway and also part of the Goldsworthy railway. [19] In May 2008, Rio Tinto suffered a setback when the Federal Court of Australia rejected an attempt by Rio to block Fortescue from using their rail network. [20]