BHP Billiton - Area C - Softrock Solutions

BHP Billiton - Area C

Site	Area C
Location	Newman WA Australia
System	12 instruments
Commissioned	2011

Area C mine uses Softrock trailer units for mobile deployment of the power and communications to each of 12 instruments.

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Softrock has installed and implemented a WIFI system for the prism and radar monitoring. It is based on Elpro 245 units.

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The Area C mine was officially opened on 30 October 2003 by the then-Premier of Western Australia, Geoff Gallop, but ore was railed from the mine to the port already on 16 August. However, bulk samples of the ore had been mined and send to customers since late 2001. The mine was initially scheduled to produce 15 million tonnes of iron ore annually.

Ore from the BHP mines is transported by rail to Port Hedland through two independent railways. The Mount Newman railway carries ore from Mount Whaleback, Orebodies 18, 23, 25 and 29, Jimblebar, Yandi and Area C. The Yarrie mine is serviced by the separate, shorter Goldsworthy railway.

Ore from the Mount Whaleback and the other Newman mines, as well as the Yandi mine is transported to the port at Nelson Point, while ore from Area C and Yarrie goes to Finucane Island. Ore is transported through an 1.16 kilometre long tunnel from Nelson Point to the port at Finucane Island. The average loading time for a ship is 30 hours and 800 ships are loaded annually at Port Hedland.

BHP Billiton Iron Ore has seven extensive high-grade iron ore mining operations in the Pilbara, with a number of these located near the town of Newman. The massive Mt Whaleback mine, established in 1968, is the biggest single-pit open-cut iron ore mine in the world being more than five kilometres long and nearly 1.5 kilometres wide. Adjacent are smaller deposits, Orebodies 29, 30 and 35. Smaller satellite mines – Jimblebar and Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 – are located outside the town of Newman. The Yandi and Area C mines are located about 100 kilometres north-west of Newman. The Yarrie mine is 200 kilometres east of Port Hedland.

Website: http://www.bhpbilliton.com/bb/ourBusinesses/ironOre/miningAndProcessing.jsp

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