Savage River is a small Australian mining village located on the west coast of

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History

Government surveyor Charles Sprent discovered Savage River's iron ore deposits in 1877, however the minerals were left untouched for nearly a century due to the difficulty in extracting iron from the low-quality ore. Several surveys were conducted in the interim including one in 1926 by Australian Iron & Steel. The township at Savage River was constructed from 1965 to 1967 when Roy Hudson's Industrial and Mining Investigations Pty Ltd received backing to construct a mining project in the area.Travel: Savage River
'' Sydney Morning Herald'', 14 January 2008. Savage River Post Office opened on 23 November 1967.

Mining operations

The Savage River Mine is an open-cut iron ore mine operated by Grange Resources. Production at the mine in 2006–07 was 1.423 million cubic metres of ore with 4.851 million cubic metres of

waste Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product, by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor economic value. A waste prod ...

. At June 2007, 50.9% of the 323.8 million tonnes of resources from the mine was recoverable

magnetite Magnetite is a mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula Fe2+Fe3+2O4. It is one of the oxides of iron, and is ferrimagnetic; it is attracted to a magnet and can be magnetized to become a permanent magnet itself. With th ...

.Savage River Mine
IRIS Tasmania, 21 April 2009. Retrieved on 13 September 2009. The iron ore is piped as slurry north to the coast at Port Latta for on-shipment.

Climate

References

{{authority control Localities of Waratah–Wynyard Council Mining towns in Tasmania