Iron Ore – Hamersley Province, WA
Iron ore is a vital commodity for WA with $5b of royalties and 50,000 employees in 2018. The enhanced understanding of the Hamersley Province orebody knowledge will assist find new deposits as well as …
The Establishment of Iron Ore Giants: Hamersley Iron …
The Establishment of Iron Ore Giants: Hamersley Iron and the Mount Newman Mining Company, 1961–1969 By DAVID LEE Director of the Historical Publications and Information Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Adjunct Professor in History, Deakin University. etween 1938 and 1960 the Australian Government prohibited export of iron ore
Iron Ore –Delivering value from flexibility and …
HAMERSLEY IRON () UNDEVELOPED PROJECT () Pannawonica. Future system capacity. Priority remains to optimise infrastructure capacity and build flexibility. 7. Current system capacity. ... Rise in inventories driven by lower quality iron ore. Source: Company guidance, Mysteel, Rio Tinto
Iron Ore Operations
The Solomon Hub in the Hamersley Ranges is located 60km north of Tom Price and 120km to the west of our Chichester Hub. Solomon represents a valuable source of production, …
Genesis modelling for the Hamersley BIF-hosted iron ores of …
— Enrichment iron ore of the Hamersley Province, currently estimated at a resource of over 40 billion tonnes (Gt), mainly consists of BIF (banded iron-formation) …
Hamersley
— Product quality; Economic assumption; What's included. This report contains: Hamersley - Channar.xls. XLS 202.00 KB. Hamersley - Channar iron ore mine. ... Hamersley - Gudai-Darri iron ore mine. 02 January 2024. Gudai-Darri will achieve 50 Mtpa by 2025 and will be one of the lowest cost mines supplying the seaborne market. $2,250.
Hamersley Iron Ore Project
The Hamersley Iron Ore Project is strategically located in the infrastructure ready, Pilbara Iron-ore region of Western Australia. The Project consists of the granted Mining Lease (M47/1450) and is situated near iron ore producing mines owned by Rio Tinto and Fortescue with access to road and rail infrastructure.
Iron formation-hosted iron ores in the Hamersley Province …
— Individual iron ore deposits range from a few millions of tonnes to over two billion tonnes at >64 wt-%Fe, although most are within the range of 200 to 500 Mt. ... In the Hamersley province of Western Australia, martite–goethite ores are largely developed in the Marra Mamba iron formation, although high (>0·08 %P) phosphorous mineralisation ...
PorterGeo Database
The main iron ores of the Hamersley province are hosted with in the Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic volcanic and sedimentary sequence the Mount Bruce Supergroup …
Earth's largest iron ore deposits are a billion years younger …
— Research led by Curtin University has revealed that Earth's largest iron ore deposits – in the Hamersley Province of Western Australia – are about one billion years younger than previously ...
Iron formation-hosted iron ores in the Hamersley Province …
— In the Hamersley province of Western Australia, martite–goethite ores are largely developed in the Marra Mamba iron formation, although high (>0·08 %P) …
Application of the Airborne Electromagnetic Method for …
Key words: Airborne electromagnetic, laterally constrained inversion, banded iron-formation, weathering, iron ore exploration. INTRODUCTION Banded iron-formation (BIF) hosted bedded iron deposits constitute the main source of iron ore in the Hamersley Province. While ore genesis models vary, most agree that localised iron ore enrichment is ...
Equinox Resources has just stacked up a 108Mt iron ore …
Equinox Resources' Hamersley iron ore project now contains 108.5Mt @ 58% Fe DSO resource; Hamersley is just 30km away from FMG's world-class Solomon Mining Hub
Equinox Resources Limited Provides Update on Hamersley Iron Ore …
— The Hamersley Iron Ore Project is located approximately 60-kilometers (kms) north of Tom Price in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and is prospective for iron ore. The Campo Grande Rare Earth Project covers approximately 1,760 square kilometers (km2) of tenements in Bahia, north-eastern Brazil.
Giant iron-ore deposits of the Hamersley province related …
The ca. 2008 Ma dikes pre s ent a new maximum age for iron-ore genesis and deposition of the Upper Wyloo Group, thereby linking ore genesis to a ca. 2050–2000 Ma period of continental extension similarly recorded by Paleoproterozoic terrains worldwide well after the initial oxidation of the atmosphere by ca. 2320 Ma.
From banded iron-formation to iron ore: geochemical and …
— The Hamersley Province of Western Australia (Fig. 1) contains numerous economic deposits of iron ore where millimetre to centimetre scale magnetite and chert layers of Proterozoic banded iron-formation (BIF) have been converted to oxidized iron minerals (Harmsworth et al., 1990).Collectively, these deposits produce approximately …
Earth's largest iron ore deposits are a billion years …
— Using a new geochronology technique to accurately measure the age of iron oxide minerals, researchers found the Hamersley deposits formed between 1.4 and 1.1 billion years ago, rather than...
Equinox Resources Limited completed the acquisition of Hamersley Iron …
— The Hamersley Iron Ore Project is located approximately 60-kilometers (kms) north of Tom Price in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and is prospective for iron ore. The Campo Grande Rare Earth Project covers approximately 1,760 square kilometers (km2) of tenements in Bahia, north-eastern Brazil.
The origin of the iron-formation-rich Hamersley Group of …
— INTRODUCTION The Hamersley Iron Province of Western Australia (Fig. 1) (MacLeod, 1966) contains extensive banded iron-formations (BIF) and large supergene iron ore bodies derived from them. These occur within the Hamersley Group which, with the underlying Fortescue Group (MacLeod et al., 1963), forms part of the Mt. Bruce …
Sampling and Sample Preparation Systems for Hamersley Iron Ore …
Sampling and sample preparation systems at the Hamersley Iron Pty. Limited port of Dampier, W.A., were developed for two separate objectives. 1. The need for rapid determination of physical properties. On stream size analysis enables lump ore and pellet- ized ore physical properties to be monitored and controlled whilst shiploading is in …
Genesis modelling for the Hamersley BIF-hosted iron ores …
— Abstract. Enrichment iron ore of the Hamersley Province, currently estimated at a resource of over 40 billion tonnes (Gt), mainly consists of BIF (banded iron-formation)-hosted bedded iron deposits (BID) and channel iron deposits (CID), with only minor detrital iron deposits (DID).
Chapter 3 The Hamersley Basin
— Iron ore is overwhelmingly the most important exploitable mineral of the Hamersley Basin. The chapter uses a modified nomenclature for banding in the banded iron-formations (BIFs), which has been proposed by Trendall et al.; and includes a detailed analysis of the published geochronological evidence, as a basis for a new interpretation …
Iron ore exports
— The ore turned out to be of such high quality (close to 60 per cent purity) that BHP decided to create its own steel manufacturing plants, first at Newcastle and then Port Kembla. ... Hamersley iron ore mine, Mount Tom Price, Western Australia, 1964 Lifting the ban. In 1959 the recently elected Liberal Premier of Western Australia, David Brand ...
Iron Ore
— Approximately 96% of Australia's iron ore exports are high-grade hematite, the bulk of which has been mined from deposits in the Hamersley province of Western Australia. The Brockman Iron Formation …
Genesis of High-Grade Hematite Orebodies of the Hamersley …
— The Hamersley iron ore province of Western Australia contains world-class high-purity hematite orebodies hosted within Lower Proterozoic banded iron formations at Mount Tom Price, Mount Whaleback, and Paraburdoo-Channar. New evidence indicates that the orebodies are structurally controlled along old normal fault systems that formed …
Exploration
Fortescue began as an exploration company and today our iron ore tenements remain key to maintaining mine life and sustaining product quality in our core iron ore business. Our exploration activities in the …
Phanerozoic history of the Pilbara region: implications for iron
— The Hamersley Province is unusually well endowed with high-grade iron deposits. Martite–goethite and channel-iron deposits are rarely found elsewhere on the world. The key to this unusual iron endowment lies in the coincidence, in time and space, of an iron-rich source, anomalous ongoing uplift and a seasonally humid climate.
Iron formation-hosted iron ores in the Hamersley Province …
— Mineralogical features of the iron ores and the hosting BIFs have been used as key evidence to support hypotheses of the origin of iron-ore deposits in the Hamersley Province directly by reflected ...
Paraburdoo Iron Ore Mine, Pilbara
— Paraburdoo lies in the Brockman bedded iron deposits within the 2.5m thick Hamersley group. The group hosts Archaean and Proterozoic aged rock formations. It is one of the major iron ore …
Hamersley Iron, 1961-1966
— Hamersley Iron, 1961-1966 GORDON BOYCE Management theory and transaction cost economics provide few insights into the dynamics of multilateral negotiations. A host of ... quality of these ore bodies. Prospectors, like Lang Hancock and E.A. Wright, knew of other mineral occurrences in the Pilbara. H. G. Raggatt, Mountains …
Iron Ore
Rio Tinto Iron Ore. We are one of the world's leading producers of iron ore. Our iron ore operations in the Pilbara comprise a world-class, integrated network of 17 iron ore mines, 4 independent port terminals, a 1,900-kilometre rail network and related infrastructure.. We produce these mainstream iron ore products in Western Australia, including Pilbara …
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The Application of Geophysics to Iron Ore Mining in the Hamersley …
— Hamersley Iron Pty. Limited operates five iron ore mines and has a number of advanced evaluation projects in the Hamersley Basin, Western Australia. ... Ground penetrating radar and radio imaging methods are employed to outline ore geometries and assist in assessing ore quality. More classic methods, such as high resolution ground …