Channar

Location

20km from the Paraburdoo mine

Operation

Open pit with site-based processing facilities. Ore from Channar passes through two stages of crushing before being conveyed to the Paraburdoo central plant for further processing.

Working arrangements

Employees live in nearby Paraburdoo

Capacity

11 million tonnes per annum of crusher feed (total capacity of Greater Paraburdoo operation is 23 mtpa - Paraburdoo, Eastern Range and Channar)

Products

Secondary crushed material conveyed to Paraburdoo

Geology

Brockman Bedded Iron Deposit

First year of operation

1990

Ownership

Joint venture between Hamersley Iron (60 per cent) and Sinosteel Corporation (40 per cent).

Assets

Shared from the Greater Paraburdoo operations pooled fleet:

Terex Unit Rig MT4400
• 06H1
• 06H2
• 06H3
• 06H4
• 06H5
• 06H6
• 06H7
• 06H8
• 06H11
• 06H12
• 06H13
• 06H14
• 06H15
• 06H16
• 06H17
• 06H18
• 06H19
• 06H20
• 06H114
• 06H115

Caterpillar 785C Haul Truck
• 06H160
• 06H161
• 06H162
• 06H163

Loading Units:
• Shovel O&K RH200C, 15H2046
• Letourneau L180, 07H1496, 07H1697, 07H168
• Hitachi EX3600, 15H2052, 15H2053, 15R02, 15H901
• Hitachi EX2500, 15H179

Auxillary Equipment Drill:
• Reedrill SKS12 21H2101
• Reedrill SKS15 21H2026
• Reedrill QXR920 21H109
• Reedrill QXR920 21H2029
• Reedrill QXR920 21H2191

Dozer:
• Caterpillar D11R 08H1061, 08H1062, 08H1063, 08H397
• Caterpillar D10T 08H93, 08H94

Grader:
• Caterpillar 16M, 14H & 24H, 12H200, 12H201, 12H219, 12H204, 12H224

Front End Loader:
• Caterpillar 992, 07H101
• Caterpillar 998, 07H103
• Caterpillar AN Loader, 07H109
• Komatsu WA250, 07H122, 07H123
• Komatsu WA900, 07H1486

Articulated Truck:
• Moxy 06H185.

Water Truck:
• Caterpillar 777D and Caterpillar 785C, 06H107, 06H108, 06H180, 06H254, 06H257

Float:
• Terex Unit Rig Float 11H92
• Caterpillar 793 Float 11H93

Tyre Dozer:
• Tiger 855 08H80
• Komatsu WD900, 08H87, 08H89

Crushing and screening plant, fines processing plant and train load out capability.

Local government

 

Shire of Ashburton www.ashburton.wa.gov.au