Brockman 4 mine
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| Funding / total | 22 million t | ||
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| Operating company | Rio Tinto Group | ||
| Start of operation | 2010 | ||
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| Degradation of | Iron ore | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 22 ° 34 '31.3 " S , 117 ° 16' 6.6" E | ||
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| local community | Tom Price | ||
| State | Western Australia | ||
| Country | Australia | ||
The Brockman 4 Mine is an iron ore mine in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia , 60 kilometers northwest of Tom Price . The mine is close to the existing Brockman Mine , and it was commissioned in 2010.
Brockman 4 Mine is owned by the Rio Tinto Group and is one of the Group's 13 iron ore mines in the Pilbara.
The Hamersley Range in which the mine is located contains 80% of all iron ore deposits in Australia and is one of the largest in the world.
Overview
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Mining in the Pilbara region. The red point marks the location of the mine. |
Brockman 4 is approximately 25 km south of the Brockman 2 mine . This mine, which cost $ 1.52 billion to build , is capable of producing 22 million tons of iron ore annually, doubling its capacity by 2012. This should help increase the production target from 220 million tons of iron ore to 330 million.
The iron ore body is approximately 15 km long, more than 3 km wide and includes the hills to the south of the Boolgeeda Creek Valley . The dismantling is done with 15 Komatsu 830E trucks. The iron ore is produced in the mine as iron ore pellets (<31.5 mm,> 6 mm) and fine iron ore (<6 mm). There is a primary crusher , two secondary crushers, a building for six sifting and an iron ore storage yard for 1.2 million tons. Stored iron ore is loaded onto railroad trains and transported to the coast on the Hamersley & Robe River Railway , where it is loaded onto ships.
The mine workers are flown in and out every two weeks.
Brockman 4 has an estimated production time of 20 years. It was officially opened on September 2, 2010. Rio Tinto needed an additional $ 1.24 billion to expand the mine in early December 2010 and also develop the Western Turner Syncline project, which will expand pilbara production to 283 million tons by 2013 [obsolete] . This expansion would make Brockman 4 the second largest mine in Rio Tinto in the Pilbara.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ MINEDEX website: Brockman 4 search result , accessed November 8, 2010
- ↑ a b Expansion Projects ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rio Tinto Iron Ore website, accessed November 8, 2010
- ↑ Pilbara ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rio Tinto Iron Ore website, accessed November 6, 2010
- ↑ Mining ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rio Tinto Iron Ore website, accessed November 8, 2010
- ↑ Iron fact sheet - Australian Resources and Deposits ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Geoscience Australia website, accessed November 7, 2010
- ↑ Rio to double capacity at $ US1.5bn Brockman mine, says Walsh The Australian , September 2, 2010, accessed November 7, 2010
- ↑ Rail ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rio Tinto Iron Ore website, accessed November 8, 2010
- ↑ Brockman 4 ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. theresourcechannel.com.au, March 5, 2010, accessed November 8, 2010
- ↑ Rio Tinto opens Brockman 4 The Sydney Morning Herald , September 2, 2010, accessed November 8, 2010
- ↑ Rio Tinto signals $ 1.24bn ore expansion The Australian , December 2, 2010, accessed December 4, 2010
