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The Mount Tom Price mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, near the town of Tom Price. [1] The mine is fully owned and operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore and is one of twelve iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara. [2] [3] In 2009, the combined Pilbara operations produced 202 million tonnes of iron ...
Primarily an iron ore mining town, the Mount Tom Price mine (situated approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) out of town) is under the control of mining giant Rio Tinto.Due to the mid-2000s and late-2010s resource booms in Western Australia, Tom Price is one of the more affluent non-metropolitan regions in Australia, with the average Rio Tinto employee's wage being significantly higher than the ...
In 1970, construction began on an extension of the Hamersley railway from Wombat Junction, just north of Tom Price, to a second mine, at Paraburdoo, about 64 km (40 mi) south west of Tom Price. Engineering design and construction management for the extension was undertaken by Minenco; the contractors were a joint venture known as Morrison ...
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 mine to open in the Pilbara. [ 26 ] Overview
Dampier - Tom Price railway works commence: Hamersley Iron: 1966: Asbestos mine closed at Wittenoom Gorge: Wittenoom: 1966: Rio Tinto opens its first iron ore mine in the Pilbara: 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 ...
Mt Tom Price mine: Rio Tinto Producing 1966 28 Mt. Whaleback mine: BHP Producing 1968 Nammuldi mine: Rio Tinto Producing 2006 6.6 Paraburdoo mine: Rio Tinto Producing 1972 20 Pardoo mine: Atlas Iron Ltd Producing 2008 2.4 Roy Hill: Hancock Prospecting [8] Producing 2014 Shay Gap: Mount Goldsworthy Mining Associates Closed in 1993 1973 Solomon ...
The Marandoo mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 45 kilometres east of Tom Price. [ 1 ] The mine is fully owned and operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore and is one of seventeen iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara.
Ore from the mine is then transported to the coast through the Hamersley & Robe River railway, where it is loaded onto ships. [9] Ore from Eastern Range, like Brockman, Mount Tom Price, Paraburdoo, Channar, Marandoo and Yandicoogina are transported as lump and fines ore product from the mines to Dampier via rail. Before being loaded onto ships ...