Mines & Extraction · mine
Mount Whaleback
Australia · Open pit
- Opened
- 1968
- Region
- Pilbara, Western Australia
- Status
- Active
- Country
- Australia
- Notes
- The largest single-pit iron mine, 5.5 km long, at Newman; the Pilbara as a whole ships over 800 million tonnes a year, most of it to China.
- Type
- Open pit
- Latitude
- -23.37
- Longitude
- 119.67
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