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Roy Hill mine

Roy Hill mine, Australia. Producing, mining iron ore.

Why Roy Hill is famous

Roy Hill is an iron ore mine 340 km south-east of Port Hedland in the Pilbara. USGS lists Hancock Prospecting 70%, Marubeni 15%, POSCO Australia 12.5% and China Steel 2.5%, with a capacity of 55 Mt a year in 2021. Opening year is not yet sourced.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Banded iron formation (Superior and Algoma types)

Roy Hill today

Where iron ore is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

People

Owned byGina RinehartHancock Prospecting holds 70 per cent of Roy Hill, 340 km south-east of Port Hedland.1

Mines

An example ofCloudbreakRoy Hill and Cloudbreak each had 55 Mt a year of listed capacity in 2021.1

Deposit types

An example ofBanded iron formation (Superior and Algoma types)Roy Hill belongs to the banded iron formation family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Australia (advance release) US Geological Survey
  2. Roy Hill mine (Q7372950) Wikidata
  3. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

Pictures on this page: Gina Rinehart June 2015.jpg, Minister for Trade and Investment The Hon Andrew Robb AO MP (CC BY 4.0).

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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