FORM 425

The effect of the sales contracts entered into between the Wheelarra Joint Venture participants and the Mt Newman Joint Venture participants and other associated agreements is that BHP Billiton (as a Mt Newman Joint Venture participant) has an entitlement to 85% of these Wheelarra Joint Venture tonnes.

Application for declaration of the Mt Newman Railway, …

BHP Billiton Iron Ore would like to acknowledge the following people for the preparation and production of this publication: BHP Billiton Iron Ore Review Team Harry Newman - MANAGER PLANNING PROJECTS, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA ... 8 The origin of Mt Whaleback ores 10 The origin of Brockman satellite ores

BHP raises May iron ore discounts for Jimblebar, …

While spot supply of Newman High Grade Fines, or NHGF, was muted due to planned Ore Handling Plant and stacker maintenance at the Newman mine in Australia, spot supply of Jimblebar and Yandi Fines reached …

Application for Declaration of the Mt Newman Railway, …

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BHP widens Oct iron ore discounts across all medium-grade …

Australian iron ore miner BHP has widened October discounts for term contracts across Jimblebar Fines (JMBF), Mining Area C Fines (MACF) and Newman High Grade Fines …

Application for declaration of the Mt Newman Railway, …

BHP Billiton Iron Ore has replaced the conventional product quality control batch system at Yandi with the Continuous Stockpile Management System (CSMS) centred on a fully integrated …

SBB Steel Markets Daily

During the day, BHP sold 80,000 mt Newman Fines with 62.3% Fe at $109/dmt CFR China with a loadport laycan of Aug. 30-Sept. 8. Medium-grade brands with high Fe content such as Newman Fines are in more demand than brands with low Fe content amid increasing steel production margins, according to market sources.

BHP Billiton Settles 2004 Lump Iron Ore Price

BHP Billiton today announced it had reached agreement with Nippon Steel on the price of its Lump iron ores for the year commencing 1 April 2004. Negotiations with other Japanese customers are continuing. The agreed price is as follows: Mt Newman High Grade Lump 45.93 US cents per dry metric tonne unit; an increase of 18.62 per cent.*

BHP Billiton Iron Ore is an

Continuing demand for high grade seaborne ore 20 Note: CY2006, Arrows only indicative, not exhaustive; Distances approximate, multiple systems may feed same mar ket, rounded to the nearest 5; Source: ... Mt Newman JV 41.5 Mt 85% BHP Billiton, 10% Mitsui-Itochu, 5% Itochu NJV Lump 15.4 Mt NJV Lump 15.4 Mt NJV Fines 26.1 Mt NJV Fines 26.1 Mt ...

Figure 1. BHP Billiton Iron Ore Tenement holding …

Mt Newman JV (7) BKM 416 63.3 0.08 ... OB24, OB25 Pit 4 and OB30, and change to cut-off grade for OB29 and OB30 from 58%Fe to 54%Fe. Jinayri (BKM) is an Inferred Resource of 1.4 billion wet metric tonnes being reported for the first time. ... Joint Venture participants and the Mt Newman Joint Venture participants and other associated agreements ...

BHP Billiton celebrates 40 years of Mt Newman iron ore in …

The anniversary signifies the combined achievements of BHP Billiton Iron Ore, Mitsui & Co, ITOCHU Corp, their predecessors Mt Newman and Goldsworthy Mining, and the communities of Port Hedland and Newman. In 1969, the Mt Newman project celebrated three major milestones: the first iron ore was railed from Newman's Mt Whaleback mine; the first ...

BHP Billiton Iron Ore

BHP Billiton Iron Ore A long term, high volume, quality supplier of iron ore lump and fines Utilising 15 of the over 40 orebodies held by three joint ventures ... Mt Newman High Grade Fines (Hematite ore) Port Hedland Sinter Fines (Hematite and Pisolitic ore) 2. Mt. Goldsworthy Mining Associates Joint Venture

BHP Billiton Iron Ore

BHP Billiton Iron Ore product range is expanding and Port capacity increasing to meet future customer needs Newman Premium hematite lump and fines with high Fe & excellent …

Mt Whaleback Mine Tour

Newman Visitor Centre Corner Fortescue Avenue and Newman Drive, Newman WA Postal address: PO Box 303, Newman WA 6753 Phone: +61 8 9175 2888 Fax: +61 8 9175 2964 Email: newmanvc@bigpond Website:

BHP Billiton -- Company History

BHP Billiton is leader or near-leader in nearly every market it covers. In 2004, BHP Billiton posted revenues of nearly $25 billion. The company's operations are segmented into seven major divisions: Petroleum, Aluminum, Base Metals, Carbon Steel Materials, Diamonds and Specialty Products, Energy Coal, and Stainless Steel Materials.

BHP Mt. Whaleback Mine Tours – Oasis at Newman

BHP Billiton's Mt Whaleback Mine is the world's largest open cut iron ore mine. Discovered in 1957 by veteran prospector Stan Hilditch, the iron ore deposit was named Whaleback because it resembled the shape of a humpback whale. This tour departs from the Newman Visitor Centre at 9AM and 2PM on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Mine Tour

BHP Mt. Whaleback Mine Tour. ... For scheduled tour dates, departing the Newman Visitor Centre, please click Book Now or email us: [email protected] or ph: 08 91752888 Long sleeves, long pants and closed in shoes are mandatory for you to wear on tour, as are a high vis vest and safety glasses which we provide for you before the tour.

Fortescue Wins High Court Decision In Long Running Pilbara …

BHP Billiton lines. BHP Billiton operates the Goldsworthy rail line (Goldsworthy line) and the Mt Newman rail line (Mt Newman line) in the Pilbara iron ore region of Western Australia. Each line is used to haul BHP Billiton's iron ore from its mines to port. The Goldsworthy line is located in the north-east of the Pilbara.

From Mt Goldsworthy to Area C

BHP Billiton (BHPB) was the first company to start iron ore mining in the Pilbara at Mt Goldsworthy in 1966 through Goldsworthy Mining Limited (GML - then Consolidated Goldfields Australia, Cyprus Mines and Utah). Operations later started at Newman on Mt Whaleback in 1969 with the Mt Newman Mining Joint Venture (MNM - then comprising American Metals Climax - …

Performance Enhancement at BHP Billiton's Newman …

At September 2001 the beneficiation plant at BHP Billiton Iron Ore's Mt Whaleback mine is set to treat 9.5 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of iron ore, 40 per cent better than original design. This paper describes the steps, decision-making processes and innovations used to increase capacity at minimum cost._x000D_ The plant was designed in 1979 to operate at 1133 t/h for 6000 …

Major Mines & Projects | Jimblebar Mine

BHP Billiton Minerals Pty Ltd. (operator) 85 %: Indirect: Jimblebar is owned by: BHP - 85%, ITOCHU Minerals and Energy of Australia - 8%, and Mitsui & Co. Iron Ore Exploration & Mining - 7%. ... High grade mineralisation is not wholly continuous across the entire orebody, being rather patchy in some places, particularly at the western end of ...

Major Mines & Projects | Mt Newman Operation

Mt Newman Operation Open Pit Operation is located 1 km W from Newman, Western Australia, Australia. Data Access; Keep me signed in. ... Overall, this deposit is high-grade and the mineralisation has a natural cut-off of 50% Fe. Western Ridge – The Western Ridge deposit is under development as a sustaining mine. The Hamersley Group rocks of ...

BHP Billiton Settles Iron Ore Prices

BHP Billiton today announced it had reached agreement with a number of its steel customers on prices for contracted iron ore tonnage for the 2005 contract year. The agreed prices are as follows: - Mt Newman High Grade Fines 61.72 US cents per dry metric tonne unit; an increase of 71.5 per cent. - Prices for Mt Newman High Grade Lump, Pisolite ...

40 Years of the Mt Newman Project

BHP Billiton Iron Ore and Western Australia's Pilbara communities have celebrated a significant milestone in Australia's mining history by marking the 40th Anniversary of the …

Integration of beneficiation process into iron ore …

This paper describes the technical development of the Newman beneficiation plant over its 23 years of opera-tion and how this development relates to the mine ore reserves of high grade …

bhpb mt newman high

Business Page 73 Whale of a mine: BHP Billiton Iron Ore's ... 30mt of iron ore a year and the Mt Newman hub, which includes Mt Whaleback and 13 other mines, accounts for 124mt a year. The best part of Mt Whaleback for BHP is the high grade of the ore. Mt Whaleback is longer and about 2km wider than Kalgoorlie's famous Super Pit.

Maintaining product grade from diverse mine sites at …

At BHP Billiton Iron Ore Newman Joint Venture (NJV) ore is railed, from four separate mine operations in the Newman area to Port Hedland, where the ore is screened, crushed and blended ... with high grade ore being extracted from Mt Whaleback. Early in the operations, ore from Orebody 29 (OB29) (beside Mt Whaleback) was included in the blend ...

Mt Whaleback

Mt Whaleback mine (Newman West) The Mt Whaleback mine is part of the Newman processing hub and is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, six kilometres west of Newman. Mt Whaleback at a glance Mt Whaleback iron ore mine is a part of an 85:15 joint venture between BHP and Mitsui and ITOCHU. ...

Application for declaration of the Mt Newman Railway, …

The BHP Billiton Iron Ore Yandi Mine, established in 1991, is located approximately 260 km South of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Production of the high grade pisolitic iron ore has expanded rapidly from 5 Mt in its first year to a current annual rate of over 30 Mt. The ore produced is fully processed at the Mine as a ...

Brand Premiums and Discounts

NEWMAN FINES. NEWMAN HIGH GRADE FINE ORE. BHP Billiton Marketing AG (Singapore Branch) 0. PB FINES. PILBARA BLEND FINES. Rio Tinto Commercial Pte. Ltd., Robe River Ore Sales Pty. Ltd. and. Hope Downs Marketing Company Pty. Ltd. 15. IOC6. IRON ORE FINES-IOC6. CSN MINERACAO S.A. 0. MAC FINES. MAC FINE ORE. BHP Billiton Marketing AG …