Fortescue Sees Solomon Hub at Capacity by Year-end

摘要

Fortescue Metals expects to have the two iron ore mines, Firetail and Kings, at its Solomon Hub in Western Australia operating at combined design capacity of 60 million metric tons per year (mt/y) of iron ore by year-end 2013. The mines are separated by a distance of 5 km. Associated infrastructure includes two ore processing facilities, crushing hubs, 15 km of overland conveyors, and a stockyard and train load-out facility. Fortescue formally opened the 20 million mt/y Firetail mine in early May. In late June, the company announced that it had awarded the mining contract for the Kings deposit to Leighton Contractors, with expectations that the mine would reach its design capacity of 40 million mt/y by year-end 2013.