Overview

Mine Type	Open Pit
Status	Active
Commodities	Iron Ore
Mining Method	Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start	...
Mine Life	...
Snapshot	Sino Iron is the largest magnetite concentrate operation in Australia, with some of the world’s biggest grinding mills, remains the world’s largest seaborne supplier of magnetite concentrate to China. CITIC’s fully integrated operation features an open pit mine serviced by the biggest haul trucks in the world, a six-line concentrator and port terminal facilities at nearby Cape Preston. CITIC’s state-of-the-art power station and desalination plant are among the largest in the State. Several litigation matters with the tenement holder are ongoing. In March 2023, the Supreme Court of Western Australia delivered its judgment in proceedings commenced by CITIC parties to secure long term approvals and tenure for the Project. While the CITIC parties were unsuccessful in obtaining all the orders they sought, the judgment provides a pathway that should enable them to seek approval of a proposal for extension of the mine pit and expansion of waste rock storage.

Deposit type

• Banded iron formation

Summary:

The Sino iron project geologically lies near the George Palmer deposit, which is situated within the Hamerseley basin.

The Hamersley Basin, located in the Pilbara Block in northwestern Western Australia, is about 500 km long and 250 km wide, with a west-north westerly elongation. The basin is defined by the extent of the Hamersley Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks and contains extensive banded iron formations (BIFs) and large hematite-goethite iron deposits, which occur with the BIF units.

Archean (42800 Ma) granite-greenstone outcrops over most of the northern half of the Pilbara Block and is unconformably overlain by the Hamersley Basin in the southern half of the block except for a few exposures in inliers or domes within the basin.

The Hamersley Group conformably overlies the Fortescue Group and is conformably overlain by the Turee Creek Group. It is approximately 2.5 km thick and consists of four important iron formations separated by sequences of dolomites, shales and volcanics.

Mining Methods

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

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Processing

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Production

Commodity	Units	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
Iron Ore	kt	....	....	....	18,200	17,472	15,470	10,010

Operational metrics

Personnel

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Total Workforce	Year
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