Mount Tom Price mine
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The Mount Tom Price mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, near the town of Tom Price.[1]
The mine is fully owned and operated by
The Hamersley Range, where the mine is located, contains 80 percent of all identified iron ore reserves in Australia and is one of the world's major iron ore provinces.[7]
Overview
Rio Tinto's iron ore operations in the Pilbara began in 1966,
Ore from the mine is then transported to the coast through the Hamersley & Robe River railway, where it is loaded onto ships.[11]
The mine's workforce is residential and lives in Tom Price.[9] In 2009, the mine employed 1,515 people, a decrease in comparison to 2008, when it employed 1,701.[12]
The mine is owned by Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, which owns six mines in the Pilbara, including Mount Tom Price, and partly owns two more mines in the region.[12] The company is building a 45MW/12MWh battery as a virtual synchronous machine to control the mine's electricity grid.[13]
References
- ^ MINEDEX website: Mount Tom Price search result Archived 2008-09-11 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 6 November 2010
- ^ a b Pilbara Archived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine Rio Tinto Iron Ore website, accessed: 6 November 2010
- ^ Mining Archived 2010-06-12 at the Wayback Machine Rio Tinto Iron Ore website, accessed: 6 November 2010
- ^ Preparing for the future Archived 2011-07-15 at the Wayback Machine Rio Tinto presentation, published: 23 March 2010, accessed: 7 November 2010
- ^ Global iron-ore production falls 6,2% in 2009 - Unctad report miningweekly.com, published: 30 July 2010, accessed: 7 November 2010
- ^ Production of iron ore fell in 2009, but shipments continued to increase, report says[permanent dead link] UNCTAD website, published: 30 July 2010, accessed: 7 November 2010
- ^ Iron fact sheet - Australian Resources and Deposits Archived 2017-02-18 at the Wayback Machine Geoscience Australia website, accessed: 2 Apr 2017
- ^ The Australian Mines Handbook - 2003-04 edition, editor: Ross Louthean, publisher: Louthean Media Pty Ltd, page: 242
- ^ a b Mount Tom Price mine Archived 2010-09-06 at the Wayback Machine Rio Tinto Iron Ore website, accessed: 6 November 2010
- ^ Iron fact sheet - Mining Archived 2011-02-18 at the Wayback Machine Geoscience Australia website, accessed: 7 November 2010
- ^ Rail Archived 2013-07-01 at the Wayback Machine Rio Tinto Iron Ore website, accessed: 6 November 2010
- ^ a b Western Australian Mineral and Petroleum Statistic Digest 2009 Department of Mines and Petroleum website, accessed: 8 November 2010
- ^ Parkinson, Giles (1 July 2021). "Rio Tinto battery to be biggest of its type in world, and shine path to 100 pct renewables". RenewEconomy. Archived from the original on 1 July 2021.
The battery will be able to control the grid and hold it steady by itself