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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 ...
Mount Tom Price was the company's first mine to open in the Pilbara. [8] The mine has an annual production capacity of 28 million tonnes of iron ore, sourced from open-pit operations. The ore is processed on site before being loaded onto rail. [9] Ore from Mount Tom Price, like Brockman, Paraburdoo, Channar, Eastern Range, Marandoo and ...
[6] [7] [8] Western Australia's major iron producers have mines, communities and railways that occur along the range. [9] Rio Tinto operates several iron ore mines within the range, including Mount Tom Price, Marandoo, Brockman, Channar, West Angelas, Mesa A mine, and Paraburdoo. Over 100 million tonnes (220 billion pounds) of iron ore is ...
Mount Meharry (Panyjima: Wirlbiwirlbi) [3] is the highest mountain in Western Australia.It is located in the Hamersley Range within the southeastern part of Karijini National Park in the Pilbara region, approximately 86 kilometres (53 mi) south-southeast of Wittenoom, [4] and 87 kilometres (54 mi) east-southeast of Tom Price.
HP Western Australia: 33 Hartz Peak: 1,254 838 Mount Picton: TAS Hartz Mountains: 34 Mount Bithongabel: 1,195 820 Brumlow Top: QLD/NSW Macpherson Range, Lamington National Park: 35 HP Blue Mountains 1,058 817 Mount William: QLD Isaac Region, nr Mackay: 36 Mount Superbus: 1,371 815 Brumlow Top: QLD South East Queensland: 37 Propsting Range: 894 ...
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Western Australia Karijini National Park is an Australian national park centred in the Hamersley Ranges of the Pilbara region in the northwestern section of Western Australia . The park is located north of the Tropic of Capricorn , 1,055 kilometres (656 mi) from the state's capital city, Perth .
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 ...