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Firetail Mine

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Iron Ore
  • Iron (hematite)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotThe Firetail is a part of the Solomon Hub iron ore operation.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnershipInvestor's Info
Fortescue Ltd 100 % Indirect
FMG Solomon Pty Ltd. (operator) 100 % Direct
Fortescue’s wholly owned and integrated operations in the Pilbara include the Solomon mining hub (Firetail, Kings Valley and Queens Valley mines).

The Solomon Mine is operated by FMG Solomon Pty Ltd (Licensee), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (FMG).

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Deposit type

  • Bedded Iron (BID)
  • Banded iron formation

Summary:

Solomon Hub Deposits – Firetail, Kings and Queens. The Solomon Project area is situated approximately 60km to the north of the Tom Price township in the northern Hamersley ranges. Outcropping geology in the project area is dominated by the Dales Gorge, Whaleback Shale and Joffre Members of the Brockman Iron Formation which hosts large bedded iron deposits (BID) throughout the Hamersley Province. The Firetail deposit comprises the majority of BID tonnes at Solomon, where geologically favourable environments have allowed for the formation and preservation of large tonnages of bedded iron mineralisation.

Mineralisation within the Solomon area is hosted by buried Channel Iron Deposits (CID), Bedded mineralisation (BID and Detrital mineralisation (DID). Outcropping geology in the area is the Dales Gorge, Whaleback Shale and Joffre Members of the Brockman Iron Formation which contain the BID mineralisation. Incised into this bedrock geology are the large Channel systems which contain the DID and CID mineralisation.

Firetail: The bedded mineralisation has a strike length of 7km and outcrops on the north and south limbs of an anticline. Mineralisation is strata bound, has an average thickness of 20m and extends to a depth of 100m below surface in places.

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Milling equipment has not been reported.

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Production

Combined production numbers are reported under Solomon Hub Operation

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Heavy Mobile Equipment

Fleet data has not been reported.

Personnel

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