Port Latta, Tasmania
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Iron ore pelletizing plant | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 40°51′07″S 145°22′52″E / 40.852°S 145.381°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Tasmania | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 0 (2016 census) | ||||||||||||
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Port Latta is a locality in North West Tasmania, with a processing plant and port used to export iron ore from the Savage River mine.
Ore is transported from mine to port by a slurry pipeline, which is 85 km long and paralleled by Pipeline Road. After de-watering, the ore is loaded onto ships via conveyor belts.[3] The capacity of the mine, pipeline and conveyor belt is about 2.4MTpa.
The mine and port opened in 1967,[4] and was still operating in 2021 with an expected life of mine to 2035 as per their 2020 yearly report.
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Port Latta (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2016.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Port Latta (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2016 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Conveyor belts
- ^ Pipeliner Archived 2015-10-06 at the Wayback Machine