Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton today signed a non-binding agreement to establish a production joint venture covering the entirety of both companies' Western Australian iron ore assets. The joint venture will encompass all current and future Western Australian iron ore assets and liabilities and will be owned 50:50 by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.

 — (The information is based on information compiled by P. Schultz, MAusIMM who is a full time employee of BHP Billiton Iron Ore Pty Ltd. Mr Schultz has sufficient experience, which is relevant to the style and type of deposit and to the activity that is undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person defined in the 1999 edition of the …

Abstract This paper describes the technical development of the Newman beneficiation plant over its 23 years of operation and how this development relates to the mine ore reserves of high grade and low grade ore. It also discusses the importance of the beneficiation product grades in the overall blending of shippable products from a range of mines to optimise …

 — This paper addresses the need for investments in ore beneficiation and scrap upgrading in the decades to come in order to meet demands on mitigating emissions of greenhouse gases as discussed at …

 — Fig 3 Types of processing ores. The wet processing (Fig 4) is normally practiced for low / medium grade (60 % Fe to 63 % Fe) hematite iron ore. The wet process consists of multi-stage crushing followed by …

Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) is an integrated system of four processing hubs and five mines connected by more than 1,000 kilometres of rail infrastructure and port facilities in the Pilbara region of northern Western Australia. ... Nickel Sulphate Plant. BHP Projects. 01:08. BHP Projects. The future is clear. And it's happening now ...

On 5 June 2009, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto signed an agreement of core principles to establish a production joint venture covering the entirety of both companies' Western Australian iron ore assets. The companies today signed binding agreements on the proposed JV that cover all aspects of how the joint venture will operate and be governed.

 — For example, a single-stage spiral circuit was used to replace a complex Reichert cones circuit in the flowsheet treating −1 mm +60 µm iron ore fines at the BHP Billiton Newman beneficiation ...

BHP Billiton's partners in the Pilbara iron ore operations are: Itochu Minerals & Energy of Australia, Mitsui-Itochu Iron and Mitsui Iron Ore Corporation. For further information please contact: Australia Samantha Evans, Media Relations Tel: +61 3 9609 2898 email: [email protected]. Jane Belcher, Investor Relations

Consequently, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have reluctantly agreed to dissolve the proposed joint venture. BHP Billiton Chief Executive Officer, Marius Kloppers, said, "The large synergies from combining our Western Australian iron ore assets with Rio Tinto's have caused us to persevere in seeking to obtain regulatory approvals.

At September 2001 the beneficiation plant at BHP Billiton Iron Ore's Mt Whaleback mine is set to treat 9.5 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of iron ore, 40 per cent better than …

The author ([email protected]) is with BHP Billiton Iron Ore, PO Box 7122, Cloisters Square, Perth, WA 6850, Australia. Based on a contribution to the conference Iron Ore 2002, organised by AusIMM and CSIRO in Perth, ... to finished product when beneficiation plant ore was to its ' high grade' swings. Unfortunately the use of

 — BHP has officially celebrated the shipment of three billion tonnes of high-quality iron ore to China, hosting key customer representatives on a tour of BHP's …

According to figures released by the Worldsteel Association, the production of crude steel has more than tripled since 1970 from 595 million tonnes per annum (Mta) to 1952 Mta in 2021. Fig. 1 shows the current shares in crude steel production of individual countries, the size of the circles being proportional to the …

The rate of this growth, and the demand for iron ore, has been unprecedented. "It took nearly 30 years for BHP Billiton to ship 100 million tonnes of iron ore to China and then only 12 more years to reach the one billion tonne milestone."

 — The quality of Indian iron ore resources is generally good with high iron content and high percentage of lumpy ore. More than 85% of the hematite ore reserves are of medium- to high-grade (+62% Fe) and are directly used in blast furnace and in direct-reduced iron (DRI) plants in the form of sized lump ore, agglomerated sinter, and …

BHP Billiton last night celebrated the shipment of its one billionth tonne of iron ore to China with customers, industrial associations, joint venture partners, suppliers and employees in Shanghai.

 — BHP Billiton is making the most of higher iron ore prices, with output at its Pilbara mines in Western Australia lifting to a record during the December 2016 half year.

BHP Billiton today announced that it had reached agreement with a significant number of customers throughout Asia to move existing iron ore contracts that were previously priced annually onto a shorter term landed price equivalent basis. The agreements reached represent the majority of BHP Billiton's iron ore sales volume.

 — Beneficiation of Iron Ore and the treatment of magnetic iron taconites, stage grinding and wet magnetic separation is standard practice.This also applies to iron ores of the non-magnetic type which …

 — In the integrated steelmaking route, iron ore containing ferrous oxides is converted to metallic iron inside the blast furnace via a chemical process called 'reduction'. Coal in the form of metallurgical coal and pulverised coal act as the active agents or 'reductants' that strip away oxygen from the iron ore to yield metallic iron ...

2,980 In 2022, BHP produced 257 million tonnes of iron ore, enough to make the steel for around 2,980 Sydney Harbour Bridges. 2.5km Our iron ore trains are over 2.5km (264 ore cars) long. Port Hedland is one of the largest iron ore loading ports in the world and the largest in Australia.

BHP has officially celebrated the shipment of three billion tonnes of high-quality iron ore to China, hosting key customer representatives on a tour of BHP's Pilbara and Port …

1.3 Structure of iron ore supply The suppliers of iron ore have undergone strategic restructuring since 2000. Three majors, namely, Vale (Brazil), Rio Tinto, and BHP Billiton (the latter two companies having two head offices, in the UK and Australia), now account for approximately 65% of the iron ore traded across the world.

 — Iron ore beneficiation is the process of improving the quality of iron ore by removing impurities and increasing its iron content. It is necessary to reduce alumina and silica in the feed. The process improves the chemical, physical, and metallurgical characteristics of the ore to make it a more desirable feed for iron-making furnaces.

In FY2004, BHP Billiton's Western Australian iron ore operations shipped a record 88.3 wet million tonnes ( basis) of ore. Japan continues to be BHP Billiton Iron Ore's biggest customer, buying 41 per cent of its products, followed by China (23%), Korea (17%) Australia (9%) and Taiwan (7%).

BHP Billiton President Iron Ore Jimmy Wilson and BHP Billiton President HSE, Marketing and Technology Mike Henry were joined by joint venture participants ITOCHU Corporation (ITOCHU) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd (Mitsui) to mark the …

BHP Billiton today announced that its Iron Ore President, Ian Ashby, would be leaving BHP Billiton on 1 July 2012, after more than 25 years with the Company. Mr Ashby will be succeeded by Jimmy Wilson, currently BHP Billiton Energy Coal President. BHP Billiton Group Executive and Chief Executive Ferrous and Coal, Marcus Randolph, said:

The Jimblebar iron ore mine is a part of an 85:15 joint venture between BHP and Mitsui and ITOCHU. It is one of five mines and four processing hubs that make up Western Australia Iron Ore – an integrated system of joint ventures connecting 1,000 kilometres of rail infrastructure and port facilities.

BHP Billiton President Iron Ore, Jimmy Wilson, said: "We are pleased to extend our successful, long standing joint venture relationship with ITOCHU and Mitsui. The new Jimblebar mine will have initial production capacity of 35 million tonnes per annum (100 per cent basis) with future expansion potential.