Metro Mining's flagship project, The Bauxite Hills Mine, is located 95kms north of Weipa on Western Cape York where the company holds a total tenement package covering approximately 1,900 square kilometres. The Bauxite Hills Mine, alone, has an estimated ore Reserve of 101.5Mt and total Resources of 131.2Mt Mining operations commenced in April 2018.
Concern over the long-term sustainability of post-mining ecosystems at Weipa (North Queensland, Australia) led to investigations of soil organic matter dynamics, a key process linking soil and vegetation development in maintenance-free systems. Paper I of this series examined the short-term effects of rehabilitation operations on soil organic matter.
The development of Amrun, its newest mine that was completed in 2018, has extended the life of the Weipa bauxite operations by several decades. In 2015, Rio Tinto had announced the launch of the ...
RIO Tinto's bauxite mining operations in and around Weipa on Cape York appear to have uncovered a biological hot spot, with staff discovering a third rare species. A total of 24 endangered ...
The company, which shipped its first bauxite cargo from Amrun three months ago, is replacing production from the nearby, depleting East Weipa mine with the $2.6 billion operations. Rio Tinto will ...
ment in tourism in the Weipa region of north-west Queensland and the role of the then Comalco bauxite mining operation, now called Rio Tinto Aluminium, in assisting this development. ... Many of these mining operations are located on, or close to Aboriginal land or communities, and near to pristine natural areas. ... totaling around $29 billion ...
Sustainable Bauxite Mining Guidelines (2018) - Indonesian. YouTube Videos. Weipa, Australia Rio Tinto. ... Rising sea levels during the last 10,000 years gradually inundated much of the land around Weipa creating the rich marine and estuarine environment seen today. This provided Aboriginal people with abundant shell fish to eat as evidenced by ...
J. Ethnobiol., 29 (2) (2009), pp. 323-338. CrossRef View Record in Scopus Google Scholar. Geoscience Australia, 1997. Geoscience Australia. ... Bauxite mining operations at Weipa, Cape York: a case study (Chapter 29) Northern Australian Land and Water Science Review - Full Report (2009) 29-31 – 29-15. Google Scholar. Koch, 2007.
Aluminum Production and Energy. H.-G. Schwarz, in Encyclopedia of Energy, 2004 1.2.2 Alumina Production. Due to high specific transport costs of bauxite, alumina production often takes place near bauxite mines.In 2000, Australia manufactured 31% of the 50.9 million tons of alumina produced worldwide, follow by the United States (9%), China (8%), and Jamaica (7%) (Table II).
Bauxite Mining Project Agreement (EBMPA), corresponding to the leases that form the operation. The leases cover the region including the communities of Aurukun, Mapoon, Northern Peninsula Area, Napranum, Weipa and all lands between Mapoon in the north and Aurukun in the south.
Our Weipa operations have three Aboriginal Agreements with 12 Traditional Owner groups. These agreements - the Western Cape Communities Co-existence Agreement (WCCCA), the Ely Bauxite Mining Project Agreement (EBMPA) and the Weipa Township Agreement - ensure local Indigenous people have a say in how the benefits of mining are used to support ...
Our world-class Weipa bauxite operation exports over 30 million tonnes of bauxite annually. Learn more about the world's largest mining operations company with Rio Tinto today.
The Queensland Premier, Mr Nicklin, yesterday officially opened Australia's most northerly industrial enterprise — the Comalco $29 million bauxite mining treatment and shipping facilities, at Weipa. ...
Bauxite is the raw material used to make aluminium. The Bauxite Hills Mine commenced mining operations in April 2018. In June 2022 Metro announced plans to increase annual production capacity at Bauxite Hills from 4 million to 7 million wet metric tonnes per annum (WMT pa) in 2023. Metro plans to spend $28.3 million on its "Stage 2" expansion.
RM2CP8T62 – Rio Tinto Gove bauxite mining operations, Nhulunbuy, East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, NT, Australia. ... RF2DH34FJ – Bauxite mining at Weipa in far north Queensland, Australia.
Here are the ten largest bauxite mines by production across the world in 2021, according to GlobalData's mining database. 1. Weipa Mine. The Weipa Mine is a surface mine situated in Queensland, Australia. Owned by Rio Tinto, the brownfield mine produced an estimated 34 million tonnes of bauxite in 2021. The mine will operate until 2058.
The project could produce up to eight million dry tonnes per annum of washed bauxite over a life of more than 20 years. The bauxite would be mined by conventional open cut mining methods using front end loaders and haul trucks. Bauxite ore would be screened and washed in an on-site beneficiation plant. The washed bauxite would be transported by ...
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Major Rio Tinto has unveiled plans to more than triple the solar capacity at its Weipa bauxite operations, in Queensland, and to add battery storage to help power operations. Energy distributor ...
Report summary. Mining is carried out at two locations on the Weipa Peninsular and at Andoom/Ely, about 15km from Weipa. The mine produces a mix of trihydrate and mono hydrate, and washes and screens bauxite to obtain desired grade before shipment around the coast to the Queensland based refineries, Yarwun and Gladstone, or overseas (mainly to ...
Innovative approach to project delivery . The first bauxite shipment was carried out six weeks ahead of schedule in early December 2018. Rio Tinto completed commissioning early and under budget in March 2019. Amrun's initial capacity of 22.8 Mtpa replaced falling output from the East Weipa operation and increased export capacity by approximately 10 Mtpa.
Weipa is a mining town built by Comalco to house its employees and their families, government workers and support people for its Bauxite and Kaolin operations. Weipa has the largest Bauxite deposit in the world. Fishing enthusiasts flock to Weipa because of its terrific coastal location and abundant marine life. Distance from Brisbane (State Capital):…
Weipa Mine. Weipa Mine is located on the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland and currently owned by Rio Tinto.In 2018, the mine produced 30.4 million tonnes of bauxite with an alumina percentage of approximately 50.6% Al 2 O 3. The Weipa mine began operations in 1963. Bauxite mining at Weipa wasn't considered until the late 1950s when Harry Evans, a geologist, discovered the large-scale Weipa ...
Geologist Harry Evans identifies bauxite at Weipa. 1958. The Queensland Government gives Comalco the rights to mine the best bauxite deposits. 1961. Comalco starts bauxite mining at Weipa. 1969-1972. Geologists explore the Aurukun bauxite deposit to determine its size and understand the quality of the bauxite. 1975-2004.
Rio Tinto has approved a new solar farm and battery storage at Weipa in Queensland, in a move that will more than triple the local electricity network's solar generation capacity and help provide cleaner power to Rio Tinto's operations. The Weipa operations in Far North Queensland includes three bauxite mines, processing facilities, shiploaders, an export wharf, two ports, power stations ...
RIO Tinto's bauxite mining operations in and around Weipa on Cape York appear to have uncovered a biological hot spot, with staff discovering a third rare species.
Today there are 174 people from the 12 traditional-owner groups in the western Cape York region working within Rio's operations and based at Weipa. The new $2.6 billion Amrun project on Wik ...
Rio Tinto Alcan Yarwun is a world class alumina refinery situated ten kilometres north-west of Gladstone in Central Queensland. Each year, roughly 3.2 million tonnes of bauxite from Rio Tinto Alcan's mining operations in Weipa on Western Cape York are shipped to Gladstone to be processed into alumina at the Yarwun refinery.
Here are the ten largest bauxite mines by production across the world in 2020, according to GlobalData's mining database. 1. Weipa Mine. The Weipa Mine is a surface mine situated in Queensland, Australia. Owned by Rio Tinto, the brownfield mine produced an estimated 35.009 mtpa of bauxite in 2020. The mine will operate until 2058.
Major Rio Tinto has unveiled plans to more than triple the solar capacity at its Weipa bauxite operations, in Queensland, and to add battery storage to help power operations. Energy distributor ...
