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The Hamersley & Robe River railway, majority-owned by Rio Tinto, and operated by its subsidiary Pilbara Iron, is a private rail network in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for the purpose of carrying iron ore. The network is larger than any other Australian heavy freight rail network in private ownership.
The Fortescue railway, owned and operated by Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), is a private rail network in the Pilbara region of Western Australia built to carry iron ore. It opened in 2008. [ 1 ] When it was completed, it was the heaviest haul railway in the world, designed for 40 tonne axle loads, 2.5 to 5 tonnes heavier than the other Pilbara ...
Pilbara Iron train, Tom Price to Dampier Railway Hamersley Iron Alco C628 locomotive at 7 Mile Yard, Dampier, Western Australia.. Pilbara Iron is a wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational Rio Tinto Group, that manages assets for Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, and Robe River Iron Associates, an unincorporated joint venture between Rio (53% and operator ...
Iron ore mines in the Pilbara region. 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.
Iron Ore Company of Canada (often abbreviated to IOC) (French: Compagnie Minière IOC) is a Canadian-based producer of iron ore. The company was founded in 1949 from a partnership of Canadian and American firms, the largest being the M.A. Hanna Company. It is now owned by a consortium that includes the Mitsubishi and Rio Tinto corporations
The request for qualifications does not include specifications for what California wants in its trains beyond the speed requirements. As the agency first contemplated a train purchase a decade ago ...
Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational company that is the world's second largest metals and mining corporation (behind BHP). [3] It was founded in 1873 when a group of investors purchased a mine complex on the Rio Tinto, in Huelva, Spain, from the Spanish government.
The Pilbara operations accounted for almost 13 percent of the world's 2009 iron ore production of 1.59 billion tonnes. [5] [6] 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. [7]