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Port Hedland

Port, Australia.

About Port Hedland

Port city in Pilbara region of Western Australia. Gazetted as a town in 1896; a large development programme began in 1965. Iron ore exports through the port were 546 Mt in 2024-25.1,2,3

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Trade routes

Shipped throughMount Whaleback iron ore to Port Hedland (Mount Newman railway)Port Hedland was an end of the mount whaleback iron ore to port hedland (mount newman railway) route.4Shipped throughPilbara iron ore from Port Hedland to ChinaPort Hedland was an end of the pilbara iron ore from port hedland to china route.3

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q550465 (Port Hedland)
  2. Our History Town of Port Hedland
  3. Western Australia Iron Ore Profile, November 2025 Government of Western Australia (WA Trade and Investment, watc.wa.gov.au)
  4. Mt Whaleback Mine (place record) Heritage Council of Western Australia (inHerit)

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: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.