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.[2]
The mine is owned by BHP (85%), Mitsui Iron (10%) and Itochu (5%).[3]
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.[4]
Orebody 23 and 25 were operated by HWE Mining and Orebody 18 by