— 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 ...

 — The Hamersley iron resources, contained in banded iron formations of precambrian age, cover extensive areas of the Pilbara region. Haematite is the principal …

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 — 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 …

 — 1.3-billion-year-old deep blue iron ore from the Hamersley Province. Credit - Liam Courtney-Davies, Curtin University. view more . Credit: Liam Courtney-Davies, Curtin University.

 — The Hamersley province of northwest Western Australia is one of the world's premier iron ore regions. The high-grade iron ore deposits are mostly hosted within banded iron formation (BIF) sequences of the Brockman and Marra Mamba Iron Formations of the Hamersley Group and consist of two types: martite-microplaty hematite containing …

 — 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 …

The BIF is a member of the ~620 m thick Brockman Iron Formation which makes up part of the 2.63 2.45 Ga Hamersley Group. The Hamersley Group comprises almost 2.5 km of consecutive sedimentary and volcanic rocks located within the ca. 80,000 km2 Hamersley Province of the Pilbara craton in North West Australia, approximately 1100 km north of …

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 …

 — Rio Tinto's Hamersley Mines is among the lowest cost suppliers of iron ore to the seaborne market owing to economies of scale because of its huge production volumes, minimal processing requirements for its direct shpping ore, and wholly owned rail …

 — 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.

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 — The real test of Marandoo will be its ability to deliver low-cost, high-quality iron ore to export markets. Ore from the mine is earmarked to supplement the declining reserves of Hamersley's ...

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.

 — Quality of the iron ore at the CID deposits is better in the centre of the palaeochannels, ... Variables which are estimated into the resource block model of the iron ore deposits at the Hamersley province include Fe, Si, Al, P, Mn, S, TiO 2, CaO, MgO, LOI and density. The estimation is commonly made using Ordinary kriging (OK) or co-kriging ...

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 …

 — The fluvial goethite–hematite channel iron deposits (CID) of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, formerly known as the 'Robe Pisolite', represent a major source of iron ore mined in the Hamersley Province.

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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 …

 — 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 …

 — 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 ...

The main iron ores of the Hamersley province are hosted with in the Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic volcanic and sedimentary sequence the Mount Bruce Supergroup …

 — 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 …

The Hamersley Iron Ore Project, located 60km north-east of Tom Price in the Pilbara, contains a 343.2Mt JORC Mineral Resource (54.5% Fe, ... The aim is to identify and quantify a processing plan that produces a saleable quality product, that will be attractive to customers, whilst also investigating infrastructure solution(s) that may support ...

Their main business area is iron ore. Hamersley Iron Pty (Limited) have 2,500 members of staff. ... Australian products are required to meet strict standards on quality, safety, hygiene and other aspects of the manufacturing, processing and packaging elements of product production. The result is world-class quality control and exceptional products.

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 …

 — 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 …

 — 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 ...

 — 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.

The Mount Whaleback iron ore deposit at Newman, Western Australia comprises the largest known continuous iron ore deposit in Australia, originally with a Measured Resource in excess of 1700 Mt of hematite ore. The deposit occurs within the Hamersley Province which forms part of the Pilbara Block in the NW of Western Australia (Figure 1). The Mount …