Nominal capacity: 75 million tonnes/annum Combined production: 63 million tonnes/annum (for the Newman Hub, consisting of Newman West and East)[1]
Financial year
2021
History
Opened
1968
Owner
Company
BHP (85%) Mitsui Iron (10%) Itochu Minerals (5%)
Website
BHP website
The Mount Whaleback mine, officially the Newman West operation,[1] is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, six kilometres west of Newman.[2]
The mine is majority-owned (85 percent)[3] and operated by BHP, and is one of five iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara. The company also operates two port facilities at Port Hedland, Nelson Point and Finucane Island, and over 1,000 kilometres of rail in the Pilbara.[4]
BHP is the second-largest iron ore mining company in the Pilbara, behind Rio Tinto and ahead of the Fortescue Metals Group.[5] In 2010, BHP employed 8,000 people in its Pilbara operations.[4]
^ ab"BHP Annual report 2021" (PDF). www.asx.com.au. BHP. 14 September 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
^MINEDEX website: MT Whaleback search result Archived 2008-09-11 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 6 November 2010
^BHP Annual report 2010 BHP website, accessed: 10 November 2010
^ abAbout BHP Iron Ore BHP website, accessed: 10 November 2010
^Western Australian Mineral and Petroleum Statistic Digest 2009 Department of Mines and Petroleum website, accessed: 8 November 2010
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