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Christmas Creek mine

Christmas Creek mine, Australia. Producing, open pit, mining iron ore.

Why Christmas Creek is famous

Christmas Creek is a Fortescue iron ore mine in the Chichester Ranges of the East Pilbara. USGS counts it within the Cloudbreak operation, which had a listed capacity of 55 Mt a year in 2021. See the Cloudbreak row for the combined figure.1,2

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Christmas Creek today

Where iron ore is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Mines

Located inCloudbreakUSGS counts Christmas Creek within the Cloudbreak operation.1

Sources

  1. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Australia (advance release) US Geological Survey
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv (modern operations table) prospectortrails.com internal data
  3. A footprint without parallel (Fortescue) Australian Mining Review

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Autonomous trucks by RobSimmons223311, CC BY-SA 4.0; Conveyors, rail and ports by Kabelleger / David Gubler, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Kirunavaara gruva, Kiruna., Fotograf okänd, / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).