The Sanjiv Ridge mine, formerly the Corunna Downs mine is an

iron ore Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color from dark grey, bright yellow, or deep purple to rusty red. The iron is usually found in the f ...

mine operated by

Atlas Iron Atlas Iron is an Australian mining company and an iron ore explorer, developer and producer, predominantly active in the Pilbara region and is owned by Redstone Resources, a fully owned subsidiary of Hancock Prospecting.

and located in the

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region of

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, south of

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and from

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. Ore from the mine is transported overland via

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to the Utah Point Bulk Commodities Berth at Port Hedland.

Overview

Approval to construct an iron ore process plant at Corunna Downs was received in September 2017. The mine was proposed to consist of five open pits, with an anticipated of iron ore to be mined at the location over a six year period. The crushed ore would then be transported by road train with a payload up to to the Utah Point Bulk Commodities Berth at Port Hedland. The Corunna Downs was temporarily suspended by Atlas in 2017 because of low iron ore prices, having initially intended to spend A$53 million to develop the project. Haulage of iron ore from Sanjiv Ridge commenced in late February 2021, having crushed its first ore at the mine earlier that month. Having exhausted the Pardoo,

Wodgina The Wodgina mine is an open-pit lithium mining operation located 90 kilometres south of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The project also produced iron ore from 2010 to 2017 before reserves were exhausted. The current l ...

, Abydos and Mt Dove mines at this point, Atlas was operating just two mines, Sanjiv Ridge and Mt Webber. A third mine, Miralga Creek, commenced operations a year later, in late February 2022. The Sanjiv Ridge mine was renamed in 2021 after the company's CEO, Sanjiv Manchanda, from its original name, Corunna Downs mine. The mine is located approximately west of the historic Corunna Downs Station and World War II

Corunna Downs Airfield Corunna Downs Airfield was a secret Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base at Corunna Downs, south of Marble Bar in the Pilbara region of Western Australia during World War II. History In 1942 the RAAF built a secret airbase on Corunna Do ...

References

External links

Atlas Iron Limited website

MINEDEX website: Sanjiv Ridge
Database of the

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