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NewsFortescue opens the world's heaviest haul railway
AUSTRALIA: A remarkable iron ore railway has been built across the Pilbara region in record time. John Kirk reports.
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NewsRio Tinto to go driverless
AUSTRALIA: Driverless trains will be operating on Rio Tinto's Pilbara heavy haul iron ore railway in Western Australia within five years, the mining company announced on June 16. The first automation trials began in early 2007, initially using segregated tracks at 7 Mile Yard. Following the successful completion of 126 ...
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Fortescue carries first ore load
AUSTRALIA: On April 6 Fortescue Metals transported its first load of iron ore mined at Cloudbreak in the Pilbara to Herb Elliott Port. The initial shipment was taken by lorry from the opencast mine to the Hunter Siding open access facility of Fortescue subsidiary The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty. It was ...
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WestNet plans West Australia iron ore network
WHILE NOT on the same scale as iron ore production in the Pilbara, high prices are driving the development of new mines in the Mid West region of Western Australia. WestNet Rail, the Babcock & Brown subsidiary that leases and manages Western Australia's 5 100 km of 1 067 mm ...
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ECP brakes for Pilbara
Following news that electronically-controlled pneumatic brakes are to be tested in revenue service by Norfolk Southern and BNSF (RG 5.07 p248), New York Air Brake has won a contract to supply similar equipment to Fortescue Metals Group in Australia. The ECP brakes are to be deployed on Fortescue's planned iron ...
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Fortescue goes its own way
On February 8 construction work commenced on another iron ore line into the Chichester Ranges from Port Hedland, Western Australia. Fortescue Metals Group is building the 260 km line to link its port facilities at Anderson Point to its Pilbara mines at a total cost of around A$3?5bn. The decision ...
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Ore lines face open access threat
WITH THEIR own discrete networks of heavy-haul iron ore lines in Western Australia, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have expressed deep concern over a Federal Court ruling on December 18 that could see the opening up of their railways for use by rival mining companies. Fortescue Metals Group had sought ...
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Still no access to Pilbara ore lines
DESPITE A draft recommendation in March from the National Competition Commission that railways owned by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton should be made available for use by other train operators, Australia's federal Treasurer Peter Costello decided in May not to grant access to BHP's 295 km Mount Newman line. The ...
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DaQin line strengthened
Traffic on the 632 km Datong - Qinhuangdao heavy haul coal line increased from 123·7 million gross tonnes in 2003 to 150 MGT last year, according to Liu Zhengjie of the China Academy of Railway Sciences. He told the Railway Engineering conference in London on June 30 that this year ...
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Whole-life planning to optimise heavy haul rail infrastructure
A 310 km heavy haul railway is planned to link unexploited iron ore deposits in the Pilbara with export facilities at Port Hedland. Careful planning will minimise the life cycle costs of the infrastructure
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Heavy haul railways address a booming market
As the world's experts in heavy haul technology gather in Rio de Janeiro for the 8th IHHA Conference on June 14-16, China's insatiable demand for iron and steel is driving the pace of development on the world's heavy haul railways. Operators of iron ore lines on three continents are moving ...
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BHP Billiton raises the limits
DRIVEN by booming demand for steel in China and elsewhere, BHP Billiton expects to invest up to A$3bn over the next few years as it ramps up capacity to haul export iron ore from its mines in the Pilbara region of northwestern Australia to the docks at Port Hedland.Maintaining a ...
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Stand-off over Pilbara ore line
ATTEMPTS to stitch together a coalition of three groups holding rights to work virgin iron ore deposits in the Central Pilbara region of Western Australia, northwest of Newman, broke down at the end of July. However, a strong market with prospects for growing demand, especially in China, is piling on ...
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Pilbara peace deal will take tracks to West Angelas
TRAINS COULD be hauling iron ore out of the West Angelas mine in the Pilbara, northwestern Australia, ’early in the second half’ of next year, thanks to an agreement reached on July 2 between Rio Tinto and the Robe River Joint Venture Partners. A year ago Rio Tinto successfully pushed ...
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BHP breaks its own ’heaviest train’ record
ON JUNE 21 BHP Iron Ore set a new world record by running the longest and heaviest freight train, between Yandi mine and Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia (below). The run was the latest manifestation of BHPIO’s ongoing programme of leading-edge research. Vice-President Mike Darby said ...
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Queensland welcomes IHHA and AusRAIL delegates
BYLINE: Bob ScheuberChief Executive, QROn behalf of QR, I would like to welcome delegates from around the world to the 7th International Heavy Haul Conference and AusRAIL 2001, the biennial business conference of the Australasian Railway Association. Both events are being held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, the ...
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