SURFACE

Koolan back in business

Mount Gibson Iron puts two years of Koolan Island remediation and repair work behind as loading winds up and the MV S’Hail Al Mafyar gets set to steam from the island with 72,000 wet metric tonnes of high grade hematite iron ore bound for China.

 The building of the seawall in 2018

The building of the seawall in 2018

Koolan Island was home to one of Western Australia's first iron ore mines, with BHP digging up more than 70 million tonnes of its high grade ore between 1959 and 1993. With Koolan Island back in production...

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