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Last updated: July 20, 2009
The proposal is to develop and operate a direct shipping iron ore project in the Pilbara, as allowed in Ministerial Statement 775 . The project involves the open-cut mining of eight small pits approximately 70 kilometres east of Port Hedland to obtain direct shipping ore quality haematite. Annual ore production will be 1.5 million tonnes. This assessment is for the proposal under s46 of the EP Act to remove condition 8-1 related to troglofauna sampling. Read more...