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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]
Preserved 5497 at the Don Rhodes Mining and Transport Museum in April 2012. 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 ...
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 ...
Stalled work on a major copper mine proposed in central Montana can proceed after the state's Supreme Court ruled Monday that officials had adequately reviewed the project's environmental effects ...
As of 2010, active iron ore mines in the Pilbara are: BC Iron. Iron Valley mine; BHP. Area C mine; Jimblebar mine; Mount Whaleback mine; Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 mine; Yandi mine; Yarrie mine; Fortescue Metals Group. Christmas Creek mine; Cloud Break mine; Rio Tinto. Brockman mine; Brockman 4 mine; Channar mine; Eastern Range mine; Hope Downs ...
The south-central Montana mine complex includes the Stillwater West and Stillwater East operations near Nye, and the East Boulder operation south of Big Timber. It has lost more than $350 million ...