Saturday, June 26, 2010

More Iron Ore

PORT HEDLAND It takes 30 hours to load one of these ships at a rate of 10,000 tonnes per hour and  and once loaded the red part will be below the water. Around 800 ships per year are loaded here with the four new loading areas to be constructed.
It seems that every third vehicle on the road in the area is a mining one. Any new homes are steel framed and have coloured corrugated iron exteriors and have very large carports so wonder if this is to create a breezeway  if hit by a cyclone. Like the last few places, a lot of red dust.

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