The Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 mine, part of BHP's Eastern Ridge hub and officially referred to as the Newman East operation, is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, eight kilometres east of Newman.MINEDEX website: Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 search result accessed: 6 December 2010
The mine is owned by BHP (85%), Mitsui Iron (10%) and Itochu (5%).Orebody 23/25 HWE Mining
Overview
At Orebody 25, BHP operates a processing plant consisting of a primary and secondary crusher, and a screening plant. BHP 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.Annual report 2010 BHP Billiton
Orebody 23 and 25 were operated by HWE Mining and Orebody 18 by Macmahon Holdings.HWE Mining awarded $400 million contract extension HWE Mining 5 March 2009Macmahon in deep with BHP Australian Financial Review 22 December 2005 In 2011 and 2014, BHP Billiton brought operations in house.Leighton flags potential sale of Pilbara iron ore business to BHP Billiton Leighton Holdings 9 August 2011Completion of the Acquisition of HWE Mining Subsidiaries BHP 30 September 2011BHP Billiton Iron Ore Complettes Owner-Operator Transition BHP 25 February 2014Transition of Orebody 18 Contract Macmahon Holdings 25 February 2014
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