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Yandicoogina Mine (Hamersley Iron Operation)

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 Location:
144 km E from Tom Price, Western Australia, Australia

  Regional Office:
152-158 St George's Terrace
Perth
Western Australia, Australia
6000
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Iron Ore
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start...
Yandicoogina mine is a part of Hamersley Iron operation.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Rio Tinto plc 100 % Indirect
Yandicoogina is an iron ore mine owned by Rio Tinto, and operated by its fully owned subsidiary Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd.

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Deposit Type

  • Channel Iron (CID)


Summary:

Yandicoogina: goethite mineralisation occurs as pisolite ores within the paleo-channel of a channel iron formation.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

Mining Operations
All of Hamersley Iron's mines are conventional open pits using track and shovel mining method with preliminary drilling and blasting. The drill holes are filled with an explosive, most often ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate/Fuel Oil) and then charged. The resulting blast breaks the material to a size required for digging.

The broken material is loaded for transport by face shovels, excavators or front-end loaders into haul trucks. Haul trucks at our operations are typically in the 190 tonne and 240 tonne class. Overland conveyors are used to transport partially crushed feed at sites where there are long distances between the pits and process plants.

Rail and port operations
Ore from processing facilities is railed up to 460 kilometres to the coast along a dedicated privately owned rail system. A typical train consist comprises 2 GE Dash 9 locomotives, 230 ore cars and is over 2.4 kilometres long. A single driver, supported by centralised track control, operates the train.

Once the train arrives at the port the ore cars go through the car-dumper. The ore cars are rotated and the ore flows out into bins and then is discharged onto conveyors.

The ore is stockpiled according to product type and the quality control plan. The travelling stackers create 250m long stockpiles. Rotary bucket-wheel reclaimers later reclaim the ore, which will be conveyed to the ship loader.

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Crushing and Grinding


Processing

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Combined production numbers are reported under Hamersley Iron Operation

Operational Metrics:

Metrics2015
Annual production capacity 60 Mt of iron ore lump & fines

Reserves at December 31, 2020:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGrade
Proven 460 Mt Iron 58.3 %
Proven & Probable 460 Mt Iron 58.3 %


Pipelines
TypeMaterialDiameterLengthDescription


Heavy Mobile Equipment as of December 31, 2015:
HME TypeModelQuantity
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Mine Management:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Annual Report 2022
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Annual Report 2018
Annual Report 2017
Annual Report 2016
Other 2016
Annual Report 2015
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