GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS: WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Top tech miners facing up to a downturn
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verything about Western Australia and its mining industry is big including its importance to the whole of Australia, its widespread, largely unpopulated desert, the 15-mine Pilbara complex, Te history of mining in Western Australia (WA) is long, from the discovery of gold at Fly Flat in 1892 and Kalgoorlie the following year,
but it was the demand for steel from the industrialisation of Asia, first Japan and then China and India, that promoted the exploitation of iron ore deposits that were thought to be limited until development of the Pilbara Craton and elsewhere from the 1960s.
The Western Australian economy is diversifying but mining and oil still dominate. Maurice Jones reports
Das Western Australian Wirtschaft diversifiziert Bergbau und Öl, aber immer noch dominant. Maurice Jones berichtet
La economía de Australia Occidental se está diversificando, pero la minería y el petróleo en silencio dominan. Informes de Maurice Jones
Leighton Contractors are operating a whole mine management contract for the Fortescue Metal Group at the Solomon mine hub in the Pilbara region. Valued at AUD 2.8bn it is the company’s largest ever contract.
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