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Iron (commodity) from
Roy Hill Mine, Roy Hill Station, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Commodity:Iron (commodity)
Data
Commodity Data:Click here to view Iron (commodity) data
Locality Data:Click here to view Roy Hill Mine, Roy Hill Station, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1234965
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1234965:6
GUID (UUID V4):fce548b5-2045-4e2c-83a1-a44450e13492
Nearest other deposits of Iron (commodity)
29.5km (18.3 miles) Christmas Creek Mine, Roy Hill Station, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
46.9km (29.1 miles) Nullagine Iron Ore Mine, Nullagine, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
54.8km (34.1 miles) Cloud Break Mine, Roy Hill Station, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
70.8km (44.0 miles) Iron Valley Mine, Marillana Station, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
81.6km (50.7 miles) Yandicoogina Mine (Yandicoogina Junction; Yandi), Marillana Station, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
81.8km (50.8 miles) Junction Central, Yandicoogina Mine (Yandicoogina Junction; Yandi), Marillana Station, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
82.4km (51.2 miles) Phil's Creek Mine, Marillana Station, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
89.2km (55.4 miles) Hope Downs 4 Mine, Weeli Wolli Creek Area, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
92.1km (57.2 miles) Yandi Mine, Marillana Station, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
95.8km (59.5 miles) Orebody 24 Far West, Newman, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
billion-year-old Mount Bruce Supergroup, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia JOCHEN J. BROCKS,1,* ROGER BUICK,2...98195-1310, USA 3 Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia 4 Department of Earth, Atmospheric...billion-year-old (Ga) Mount Bruce Supergroup, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, were analyzed for solvent extractable...Additionally, extracts from shales associated with iron ore deposits at Tom Price and Newman have unusual...hydrocarbons detected in shales associated with iron ore deposits at Mt Tom Price and Mt Whaleback are
Journal (issue)
Talent, Traditions, Tech Longtime underground zinc mine innovates to improve workplace conditions and production...safer work environment............... 38 Reducing Mine Water and Waste Through Preconcentration Preconcentration...Up Using Water From Atacama............... 12 Australia/Oceania: Newmont Brings First Autonomous Haulage...African Assets to Harmony Gold..... 16 Asia: Turquoise Hill Commits to New Coal-fired Power Plant for Oyu Tolgoi...legacy TSFs. The general consensus was that anytime a mine experiences a spill anywhere, the entire mining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Tertiary Yandi channel iron deposits, Hamersley Province, Western Australia M . S. Stone, A. D. G eorge...during deposition of the worldclass Yandi channel iron deposit. Five prominent rock units are traceable...the presence of BCONG clasts in the BDZ. CHANNEL IRON DEPOSITS (average 58·2%Fe, 0·04%P, 4·9%SiO2, 1·3%Al2O...current ore resource at BHPB’s Yandi is ~1500 Mt and iron ore production is estimated to be 34 Mt in 2002...irregular or subangular to subrounded shape. These iron-rich clasts, interpreted to represent the end-product
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zero-emission equipment with all the other smarts mine operations have become used to, Dan Gleeson learns...having helped it achieve full AHS validation at Roy Hill. IM caught up with him 62 FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS...vendors, many of which uptick in the number of mine electrification Challenge, stories featured. ...paul@im-mining.com Mining Events produces The Electric Mine concepts for large-scale Editor Daniel Gleeson...is clear dramatically cut emissions from surface mine to everyone in the sector that this is the fastest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1968, pp. 815-821 The JaspiliteIron Oresof Australia Joa• C. LIDD¾ Abstract The Lake Superior-typeiron...place Australia as the fourth largest iron producing country in the world, occur largely in Western Australia...Australia and to a lesserextent in South Australia and Queensland. They are confinedto the jaspilites or...sameprocesses as theseothers. It is postulatedthat iron and silica hydrosolswere cyclically depositedwithin...metamorphism. Leaching of silica and redepositionof the iron probably resultedin the formation of the orebodieswithin
Journal (issue)
British Fluorspar AUSTRALIA 30 Klondex Mines AFRICA 80 Holcim Vietnam AUSTRALIA McKay Drilling ... 92 AUSTRALIA 66 Cupric Africa 104 Hedweld Engineering 5 BEST OF 2015 Best company reports of...railway and port project based in Queensland, Australia, is on-track to build one of the world’s largest...Project is being spearheaded by Adani Mining, the Australia-based subsidiary of Adani Group, and the expectations...New Afton Mine in Canada, the Mesquite Mine in the United States, the Peak Mines in Australia and the Cerro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Yandi channel iron deposits, Marillana Formation, Pilbara, northwestern Australia* M. K. MACPHAIL1†...ACT 0200, Australia. School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling...Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. 2 Fossil pollen and spores preserved in organic-rich claystones...palaeochannel hosting the Tertiary Yandi channel iron deposits (CID) provide an in situ constraint on...warm south-flowing protoLeeuwin Current along the Pilbara coast. It is likely that rainfall increased but
Report (edition)
maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Department of Mines and Petroleum 100 Plain Street East Perth WA 6004 Phone: (08) 9222 3459 Fax: (08) 9222...Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically...authoritative, the second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is written not only for the professional geologist...et al. The second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is an updated version published in response
Journal (issue)
successfully completing the Product Verification phase at Roy Hill. Paul Moore reviews the progress behind this major...new era of data-backed calls that could speed up mine development, Dan Gleeson reports 52 REBUILDS &...the recent announcement from Australian iron ore miner Roy Hill about its planned expansion of autonomous...the autonomous Hitachi EH5000 trucks running at Roy Hill during the project’s Production Verification phase...to a 100% electric mine would represent a transformational shift for underground mine operations where
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia ro of ABSTRACT Previous bulk sulphide analyses...hypochlorite etching and electron microscopy. The Roy Hill Shale sample shows two generations of pyrite in...Neoarchean shale samples from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. We first established the textural...examined at the Perth Core Library, Carlisle, Western Australia. Samples were obtained from two intervals...119°30'E) located in the Fortescue Valley of the Pilbara Craton. Both drill cores are black carbonaceous
Report (issue)
RESOURCES BULLETIN 17 ARITE AND FLUORITE WESTE AUSTRALIA * by R 6. Abeysinghe and J. M. Fetherston DVERNMENT...SURVEY OF WESTERN DEPARTMENT OF MINERALS AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OFWESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL... Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Pietro Guj Copy editor: A. S. George The...M., 1997, Barite and fluorite in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7309 6539 2 Abeysinghe, P. B. Barite and fluorite in Western Australia
Journal (issue)
has created an opportunity for Miiiiiig not only mine operators to revamp how they operate, but also for...ISwes 8 'Jf!81 SALES MANAGER JONATHAN DUCKETT Australia {stJrtace mail) $120.00 (Incl GST) OYerseas AS149...303. 1·9 Chand09 Sueet saint Leonards NSW 2065, Australia www.prlmecteatn.e.com.au 0 Copyright Pltne Cte&We...ENVIRONMENT What's next fo r mining? Restoring mine land to former glory A series of feattues on the...Pumping with precision Monash University unlocks mine rehabilitation opportunities 20 66 Golden partnerships
Journal (issue)
together to facilitate a completely autonomous deep mine inspection 53 CONVEYING TECHNOLOGY Paul Moore...Mining It is a big year for ASI Mining, with the Roy Hill AHS project reaching its culmination and greater...battery-electric drilling and bolting machines from Mine Master, part of GHH Group. Designed to work in galleries...Poland, including a trial at KGHM’s Lubin copper mine. Mine Master also has a battery-electric drill rig...future.” www.fmgl.com.au; https://wae.com FMG’s Pilbara mining operations. Fortescue, as a foundation customer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
– reflections on forty years of iron ore exploration in the Pilbara M . K neeshaw, D. A. Kepert, I. J...M . A. Pudovskis The evolution of BHP Billiton Iron Ore resulted in an eclectic mix of mines/ores, each...at BHP Billiton Iron Ore Pty Ltd, 200 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA 6000, Australia (mal.kneeshaw@ bhpbilliton...to the conference Iron Ore 2002, organised by AusIMM and CSIRO in Perth, Australia on 9–11 September...association with AusIMM. Keywords: Iron ore exploration, Pilbara INTRODUCTION BHP Billiton (BHPB) was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
terrane boundary in the southeastern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia I.M. Tyler~, I.R. Fletcher~'~, J.R..."Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth 6004, W.A., Australia b School of Physical...Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth 6001, W.A., Australia (Received July 18, 1990; accepted after revision...terrane boundary in the southeastern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Precambrian Res., 54:211 229. Rb-Sr...granite-greenstone terrain in the southeastern part of the Pilbara Craton. Samples were collected from the Kurrana
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
eastern Pilbara, Western Australia Tim S. Blake * 86 Reser6oir Street, Chidlow 6556, WA, Australia Received...extensional basin succession in the eastern Pilbara of Western Australia has been divided into 11 unconformity-bounded...Nullagine and Mount Jope Supersequences in Western Australia (Arndt et al., 1991; Blake and Barley, 1992;...volcanogenic successions (e.g. Campbell et al., 1989; Hill, 1993). Archaean (\ 2.5 Ga) supracrustal successions...Mount Jope Supersequences in the Pilbara region of Western Australia (most of the Fortescue Group) were
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ejecta units overlain by iron-rich sediments in 3.5–2.4 Ga terrains, Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons: Accidental...Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia Received 22 January 2006; received in revised...impact ejecta units and overlying iron-rich sediments, including banded iron-formation (BIF), jaspilite and...ferruginous shale, observed in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia and the Barberton Greenstone Belt...jaspilite in the Antarctic Chert Member, central Pilbara Craton; (2) 3258 ± 3 Ma impact spherule unit (S2)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
setting of iron mineralisation at E Deposit (East), Area C, Hamersley Province, Western Australia F. M. Bodycoat*...Area C iron ore operations in the central region of the Hamersley Province, Western Australia. It is...is hosted by the Marra Mamba Iron Formation, the lowermost unit of the Archaean to Lower Proterozoic Hamersley...Mineralisation at E Deposit East is contained within the Mount Newman Member of the Marra Mamba Iron Formation and...be better understood. Interpretation of detailed mine face mapping, downhole geophysics, geochemistry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
landscape evolution and channel iron deposit genesis at Lynn Peak, Western Australia Paulo M. Vasconcelos a,⇑...University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences...the Lynn Peak channel iron deposit (CID), Hamersley Province, Western Australia, reveals a history of...Massive goethites from nearby weathering profiles at Roy Hill North, a possible source of detrital material...sediments, forming some of the largest readily mineable iron ore deposits on earth. Ó 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
salinity of a large inland wetland of northwest Australia☆ Grzegorz Skrzypek a,b,⁎, Shawan Dogramaci b,c...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Ecosystems Research...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Rio Tinto Iron Ore, 152-158...152-158 St George's Terrace, Perth, WA 6000, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Editor: David R. Hilton Keywords: Fortescue Marsh Pilbara Salinity Groundwater Stable isotopes Cl/Br a b
Report (issue)
OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never...in the Murchison, Northeastern Goldfields, Pilbara and East Kimberley regions. Zinc, lead, nickel, or...D DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces................................................. East Kimberley region ..............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Minerals Australia, Perth...Perth, Australia Correspondence: Mehdi Asgharzadeh (mehdi.asgharzadeh@curtin.edu.au) Received: 24 February...present an example for converting a seismometer station to a virtual source of Rayleigh waves by cross-correlating...of 3-D seismic surveys for BHP Minerals Australia over an iron ore prospect on the northern flank of the...Valley in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The geology consists of the Marra Mamba Iron Formation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
M. Ostrander c , Daniel D. Gregory a,e , Moutusi Roy c , Ariel D. Anbar c,d , Timothy W. Lyons a a Department...preserved in the ∼2.7–2.6 billion-year-old (Ga) Roy Hill Shale of the Jeerinah Formation. Applying Fe speciation...Formation of the Hamersley Basin (Pilbara Craton, Western Australia) preserves evidence for incipient...Archean. Our study focuses on the pyrite-rich Roy Hill Shale of the Jeerinah Formation, which contains...34 11 ). Both cores targeted the organic-rich Roy Hill Shale, the uppermost unit of the Jeerinah Formation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia. flannery@jpl.nasa.gov 9 10 11 Keywords: Archean...higher energy yield metabolisms such as sulfate and iron reduction and provided an ecological niche for methanogens...units in the 2.63-2.45 Ga Hamersley Group, Western Australia (Strauss and Moore, 1992; Eigenbrode and Freeman...subaerial 2.78-2.63 Ga northern Fortescue Group, Western Australia, where values as low as -61 ‰ suggest a peak...sedimentary successions in both South Africa and Western Australia. In models proposed by these authors, the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/epsl Asteroid mega-impacts and Precambrian banded iron formations: 2.63 Ga and 2.56 Ga impact ejecta/fallout...BIF/argillite units, Hamersley Basin, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia Andrew Glikson ⁎, John Vickers Department...Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia Received 23 September 2006; received in revised...impact ejecta/fallout units and overlying banded iron formations suggests that, in some instances, these...Archean Jeerinah Formation, Fortescue Group, Western Australia. Aust. J. Earth Sci. 47 (2000) 315–325; B
 
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