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Roy Hill Mine

Location: 103 km N from Newman, Western Australia, Australia

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PO Box Locked Bag No.42
Welshpool Dc
Western Australia, Australia
6986

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Summary

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Iron Ore
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotRoy Hill is a world-class iron ore operation and one of the largest single ore mines in Australia.

The mine comprises numerous open pits, a mine processing plant and associated infrastructure for transport, utilities and accommodation.

Roy Hill has made significant investments to improve its operations and maintain efficient production above 60 Mtpa. This includes investment in the autonomous haulage system (AHS) fleet expansion. Early works have commenced on McPhee which will be the next operating mine to utilise the existing Roy Hill infrastructure.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
China Steel Corporation 2.5 % Indirect
POSCO International Corp. 12.5 % Indirect
Marubeni Corp. 15 % Indirect
Hancock Prospecting Pty. Ltd. 70 % Indirect
Roy Hill Iron Ore Pty Ltd. (operator) 100 % Direct
The Roy Hill Mine is owned and operated under the entity Roy Hill Iron Ore Pty Ltd (Roy Hill). Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd (HPPL) is the majority owner with a 70 % equity interest. The remaining 30 % equity interest is held through consortia comprising Marubeni Corporation, POSCO and China Steel Corporation, with Marubeni Corporation holding a 15 % equity interest in the company, POSCO holding 12.5 % and China Steel Corporation holding 2.5 %.

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Deposit type

  • Banded iron formation

Summary:

The Chichester Range forms the northern-most outcrop of the Hamersley Group for most of the Hamersley Iron Province. The Chichester Range comprises Cainozoic alluvial and colluvial sediments over lying the Hamersley Group Marra Mamba Formation and Fortescue Group’s youngest formation, the Jeerinah Formation. The Fortescue Valley sequence comprises Tertiary detritals (calcretised lacustrine and fluvial clay deposits) and the underlying Wittenoom Formation (dominated by dolomite of the Paraburdoo Member). The Chichester Range occurs over the Mine Area whilst the Fortescue Valley sequence covers the Southern Borefields (including Remote MAR). The stratigraphic units in the Mine area range from the Warrie Dolomite and Roy Hill Shale Member of the Jeerinah Formation of the Fortescue Group through the Nammuldi Member (NAM) of the Marra Mamba Iron Formation (MMIF) to Cainozoic sediments and recent regolith products of the Fortescue Valley and Chichester Range. The area is also cut by minor NE – SW trending dolerite dykes.

Roy Hill is a low phosphorus, Marra Mamba iron ore deposit located in the Pilbara – close to Asia and in one of the world’s premier iron ore provinces.

The Marra Mamba Iron Formation is the basal member of the Hamersley Group in Western Australia and is host to major iron-ore deposits in its upper Mt Newman Member.

The geology at Roy Hill has been separated into six key lithological units for purpose of resource definition and block modelling:
- Alluvium;
- Calcrete;
- Clay;
- Detrital Iron Waste;
- Jeerinah Formation; and
- Nammuldi Member.

The iron mineralisation resource to be mined includes mineralised sections of Marra Mamba unit, known as the Nammuldi Member, and the overlying detrital deposits.

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AV - Autonomous

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Commodity Production

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Production Costs

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Mine Financials

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