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Australia
Hope Downs Mine

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 Location:
80 km nw from Newman, Western Australia, Australia

  Regional Office:
Level 22, 152-158 St Georges Terrace
Perth
Western Australia, Australia
6000
Phone08 9215 1515
WebsiteWeb
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Iron Ore
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • Gravity separation
  • Dense media separation
  • Magnetic separation
Hope Downs is comprised of 4 open pit mines – Hope 1 North, Hope 1 South, Hope 4 and Baby Hope.
Latest NewsRio Tinto, Hancock Prospecting launch fourth Hope Downs development     October 5, 2018


Owners

 
CompanyInterestOwnership
Rio Tinto plc 50 % Direct
Hope Downs Iron Ore Pty Ltd. 50 % Indirect
Hancock Prospecting Pty. Ltd. 50 % Indirect

Deposit Type

  • Banded iron formation

Source: Source p.1

Summary:

The Hope Downs mine is located in the Hamersley Group which forms the middle layer of Mount Bruce Group in the Marra Mamba Iron Formation.

The Marra Mamba Iron Formation is the lowermost unit of the Proterozoic Hamersley Group in the northwestern part of Western Australia.

The Marra Mamba Iron Formation varies considerably in thickness, as based on sections measured in the field; however, not enough drill hole data are available to provide a quantitative assessment of its thickness variation throughout the Hamersley Range. Trendall and Blockley repoft a thickness range of 183 to 229 m based on sections mearPresent address: Department of Geology, Georgia State Univcrsity, Atlanta, Georgia

Others report thicknesses that range from a minimum of 15 m to 183 m (Macleod, 1966) for sections in different parts of the Hamersley Range. The Marra Mamba lron Formation is underlain by the Jeerinah Formation which is the uppermost member of the Fortescue Group. This group may be as much as 3660 to 4270 m thick and consists of shales and cherts in the upper part.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader

Source:

Summary:

All of Hamersley Iron's mines are conventional open pits. Ore is loaded into haul trucks by shovels, hydraulic excavators or front-end-loaders, and transported to the primary crusher. It is then processed in a crushing and screening plant to produce fine ore and lump ore.


Crushing and Grinding
Source: Source p.8


Processing

  • Gravity separation
  • Dense media separation
  • Magnetic separation

Source: Source p.8

Summary:

At Mount Tom Price, a high-grade plant produces lump product, fines and oversize. The oversize is returned for tertiary crushing after which it becomes part of the feed to the product screens.

At Paraburdoo, the fine ore stream from crushing and screening is wet screened and hydrocycloned to remove slimes. The Paraburdoo fines processing plant (PFPP) improves the quality of fines by reducing gangue impurities, particularly alumina. The gravity separation system segregates the magnetite from haematite.


Production:

CommodityUnits20192018201720162015
Iron Ore kt 48,26445,36846,94147,01044,745


Reserves at December 31, 2019:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGrade
Proven & Probable 281 Mt Iron 62.41 %
Total Resource 1,578 Mt Iron 59.97 %


Heavy Mobile Equipment as of December 31, 2015:
Source: Source p.41
HME TypeModelQuantity
Truck (haul) Komatsu 830E 19

Mine Management:

Job TitleNameProfileRef. Date
Mining Manager Dean Sinno LinkedIn Sep 29, 2019
Operations Manager Steven Dunstone LinkedIn Sep 29, 2019


Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Annual Report 2019
Annual Report 2018
Annual Report 2017
Press Release 2017
Annual Report 2016
Annual Report 2015
Other 1981

News:

NewsDate
Rio Tinto, Hancock Prospecting launch fourth Hope Downs development October 5, 2018

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