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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.
Mount Newman Satellite image of Newman, to the East of Mount Whaleback mine, on 2 October 2017.. Newman was established as Mount Newman by Mt. Newman Mining Co. Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of BHP) in 1966 as a company town to support the development of iron ore deposits at nearby Mount Whaleback. [5]
The first train left Mount Newman on 1 January 1969 and the first shipment of Newman ore left port on 1 April 1969 on board of Osumi Maru. [24] Newman remained a "closed" company town until 1981. [20] Rio Tinto's iron ore operations in the Pilbara began in 1966, [25] with the Mount Tom Price mine opened that year, becoming the company's first ...
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.
Mount Tom Price mine: July 1966: Tom Price to Dampier - first fully loaded ore train: August 1966: Dampier - first shipment of ore loaded: 1967: Iron ore discovered at Mount Whaleback: Newman: May 1967: Hamersley Holdings Limited shares on the Australian Securities Exchange: 1968: BHP establishes an iron ore mine near Newman: Mount Whaleback ...
BHP's operations in Newman began in 1968, when the Mount Whaleback mine was opened, the biggest single-pit open-cut iron ore mine in the world. The mine is 1.5 kilometres wide and more than five kilometres long. [7] A new town, Newman, was constructed, as well as a 426 kilometre railway line, the Mount Newman railway.
Mount Whaleback iron ore mine, at the eastern end of the range. The Ophthalmia Range is a mountain range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, approximately 1,190 kilometres (739 mi) north of Perth. There are some variations of the spelling of Ophthalmia. [1] [2] The eastern end of the range is connected to the Hamersley Range. [3]
In 1967, iron ore was discovered at Mount Whaleback, and a mining venture was undertaken that included the establishment of a new town, Newman, 426 km of rail from the mine to the port and the development of processing equipment at both Newman and Port Hedland. In 1986, at a cost of $87 million, the existing channel was dredged to allow larger ...