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Tom Price

Boom town, Australia.

About Tom Price

Town in Western Australia. Gazetted on 21 September 1964 to serve the Mount Tom Price iron ore mine.1,2

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Mines

Worked atHamersley Mines - Mount Tom PriceHamersley Mines - Mount Tom Price lies about 7 km away.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q1001642 (Tom Price)
  2. Local History Strategy 2025-2029 Shire of Ashburton

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).