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The Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 8 kilometres east of Newman.〔(MINEDEX website: Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 search result ) accessed: 6 December 2010〕 The mine is majority-owned (85 percent)〔(BHP Billiton Annual report 2010 ) BHP Billiton website, accessed: 6 December 2010〕 and operated by BHP Billiton, and is one of seven iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara. The company also operates two port facilities at Port Hedland, Nelson Point and Finucane Island, and over 1,000 kilometres of rail in the Pilbara.〔 BHP Billiton is the second-largest iron ore mining company in the Pilbara, behind Rio Tinto and ahead of the Fortescue Metals Group.〔(Western Australian Mineral and Petroleum Statistic Digest 2009 ) Department of Mines and Petroleum website, accessed: 6 December 2010〕 As of 2010, BHP employs 8,000 people in its Pilbara operations.〔(About BHP Billiton Iron Ore ) BHP Billiton website, accessed: 6 December 2010〕 On February 25, 2014 Macmahon Holdings announced that the operations at Orebody 18 would be run by BHP Billiton, completing the transition to owner-operator for all BHP iron ore mine sites in Western Australia.〔http://www.macmahon.com.au/asx-announcement-transition-of-orebody-18-contract.html〕 ==Overview== The first iron ore mine to be developed in the Pilbara was the Goldsworthy mine in 1965. It was supported by a railway line, the Goldsworthy railway, as well as port facilities at Finucane Island. On 1 June 1966, the first shipment of iron ore left the Pilbara on board the ''Harvey S. Mudd''.〔(History of the Iron Ore Industry and the Pilbara ) BHP Billiton website, accessed: 6 December 2010〕 At Orebody 25, BHP operates a processing plant consisting of a primary and secondary crusher, and a screening plant. BHP Billiton does not report the annual production of the mine separately, but rather together with its other Newman operations which, in 2009-10, produced a combined 37 million tonnes of ore.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 mine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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