Forty Years of Iron Ore Mining in the Wild West of Australia

PERTH, AUSTRALIA--December 3, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Earlier this year, a significant milestone in the annuls of Australian mining passed almost without notice. July 2009 marked the 40th anniversary of the railing and shipping of the first iron ore to be mined at what was then known as the Mt. Newman Project, in the Pilbara region in the northwest of Western Australia.

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