Spinifex Ridge
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Spinifex Ridge is a molybdenum
/copper
and iron ore mining project in the Pilbara region of Australia
, northeast of Marble Bar.
Moly Mines awarded production contracts to BGC Contracting in August 2010. Initially, there were plans for an open pit molybdenum/copper mine producing 20 million tonnes per year; with changes in the price of molybdenum, this was downsized to 10MT/year.
Port facilities at Port Hedland were commissioned in September 2010
Iron ore mining began in November 2010; ramping up to a throughput of 1 million tonnes per year.
Molybdenum
Molybdenum , is a Group 6 chemical element with the symbol Mo and atomic number 42. The name is from Neo-Latin Molybdaenum, from Ancient Greek , meaning lead, itself proposed as a loanword from Anatolian Luvian and Lydian languages, since its ores were confused with lead ores...
/copper
Copper
Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...
and iron ore mining project in the Pilbara region of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, northeast of Marble Bar.
Moly Mines awarded production contracts to BGC Contracting in August 2010. Initially, there were plans for an open pit molybdenum/copper mine producing 20 million tonnes per year; with changes in the price of molybdenum, this was downsized to 10MT/year.
Port facilities at Port Hedland were commissioned in September 2010
Iron ore mining began in November 2010; ramping up to a throughput of 1 million tonnes per year.