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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.
BHP's operations in Newman date back to 1968, when the Mount Whaleback mine was opened, the biggest single open-pit iron ore mine in the world. A new town, Mount Newman, was constructed, as well as a 426 kilometre railway line, the Mount Newman railway. The first train left Mount Newman on 1 January 1969 and the first shipment of Newman ore ...
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 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.
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.
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North of the Pilbara looking south at the range. At least two important but differing definitions of "the Pilbara" region exist. Administratively it is one of the nine regions of Western Australia defined by the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993; the term also refers to the Pilbara shrublands bioregion (which differs in extent) under the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for ...
FILE - The Stillwater Mining Company, the only platinum and palladium mine in the United States, is seen near Nye, Mont., May 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)