Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 mine

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Coordinates: 23°20′23″S 119°47′59″E / 23.339630°S 119.799797°E / -23.339630; 119.799797
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Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 mine
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Mitsui Iron (10%)
Itochu (5%)
WebsiteBHP Billiton website
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The Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 mine, part of BHP's Eastern Ridge hub and officially referred to as the Newman East operation,[1] is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 8 kilometres east of Newman.[2] The mine is majority-owned (85 percent)

Port Hedland, Nelson Point and Finucane Island, and over 1,000 kilometres of rail in the Pilbara.[4]

BHP is the second-largest iron ore mining company in the Pilbara, behind

Fortescue Metals Group.[5] As of 2010, BHP employs 8,000 people in its Pilbara operations.[4]

On 25 February 2014 Macmahon Holdings announced that the operations at Orebody 18 would be run by BHP Billiton, completing the transition to owner-operator for all BHP iron ore mine sites in Western Australia.[6]

Overview

Iron ore mines in the Pilbara region

The first iron ore mine to be developed in the Pilbara was the

Goldsworthy mine in 1965. It was supported by a railway line, the Goldsworthy railway, as well as port facilities at Finucane Island. On 1 June 1966, the first shipment of iron ore left the Pilbara on board the Harvey S. Mudd.[7]

At Orebody 25, BHP operates a processing plant consisting of a primary and secondary crusher, and a screening plant. BHP does not report the annual production of the mine separately, but rather together with its other Newman operations which, in 2009-10, produced a combined 37 million tonnes of ore.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "BHP Annual report 2021" (PDF). www.asx.com.au. BHP. 14 September 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  2. ^ MINEDEX website: Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 search result Archived 2008-09-11 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 6 December 2010
  3. ^ a b BHP Billiton Annual report 2010 BHP Billiton website, accessed: 6 December 2010
  4. ^ a b About BHP Billiton Iron Ore BHP Billiton website, accessed: 6 December 2010
  5. ^ Western Australian Mineral and Petroleum Statistic Digest 2009 Department of Mines and Petroleum website, accessed: 6 December 2010
  6. ^ "ASX Announcement: Transition of Orebody 18 Contract". Macmahon Holdings. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  7. ^ History of the Iron Ore Industry and the Pilbara BHP Billiton website, accessed: 6 December 2010
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