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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.
The Pilbara also has one of the world's major manganese mines, Woodie Woodie, situated 400 kilometres (250 mi) southeast of Port Hedland. Iron ore deposits were first discovered by prospector Stan Hilditch, who in 1957 found a large iron ore deposit in the southern Ophthalmia Range, at what was to become the Mount Whaleback mine. [40]
Whaleback is a remote 11,717-foot-elevation (3,571-meter) three-mile-long ridge located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Tulare County of northern California. [3] It is situated in Kings Canyon National Park , extending north from the Great Western Divide .
Goldsworthy (named after the geographical feature Mount Goldsworthy) is a former mining town in Western Australia, east of Port Hedland and located in the Shire of East Pilbara. It was the first [1] iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is a state park unit preserving Malakoff Diggins, the largest hydraulic mining site in California, United States.The mine was one of several hydraulic mining sites at the center of the 1882 landmark case Woodruff v.
Rose Hill Cemetery, Black Diamond Mines Rose Hill Cemetery, Black Diamond Mines Trail to a mine, Black Diamond Mines. The Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve is a 6,000-acre (2,400 ha) park located north of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County, California under the administration of the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD). The district ...
A gold mine could reopen in the Sierra Nevada. Environmentalists fear air pollution, empty wells and toxic waste.
California Historical Landmark 723, Johnsville Ski Area, Plumas. Plumas-Eureka State Park is a California state park located in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range in Plumas County, California. [2] [3] The park, as a mining museum, shows and protects the history of the active mid-19th-century California Gold Rush mining period.