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Pilbara powers for Rio Tinto

BROWNFIELD developments and infrastructure expansions last year have helped Rio Tinto’s Pilbara iron ore operations turn out 12% more iron ore than they did a year ago.

Noel Dyson
Iron ore production continues to power in the Pilbara.

Iron ore production continues to power in the Pilbara.

Those operations produced 79.9 million tonnes for the first quarter of 2016, up 12% on what they did in the same quarter of 2015. However, first quarter production was down 3% on quarter four production...

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