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A ‘Great Day’ is achieved when construction targets are achieved and there are no: • lost time injuries • medical treatment injuries • reportable environmental incidents and • reportable heritage breaches. When the team notches up a ‘Great Day’, the project makes a contribution to the Royal Flying Doctor Service. As at 20 June, more than $27,000 has been raised from 281 ‘Great Days’. The contribution from Fortescue is toppedup by donations made by team members in Perth and Christmas Creek site locations. KEY TARGETS: September 2012 - first ore to stockpile December 2012 - Christmas Creek Phase 2 complete Cloudbreak Wet Plant The Wet Plant Project (WPP) is being constructed at Cloudbreak near the OPF as part of the T155 Chichester Expansion Project. The plant is of strategic importance to Fortescue as it will enable the Cloudbreak OPF to process wet ore. By processing lower grade ore that would have been stockpiled as waste, the life of the mine will be increased. More than 400,000 man hours have been worked on the project and construction is now 40 per cent complete. The WPP involves a new scrubbing circuit which will remove sticky clays and shales associated with higher moisture content ore and will provide a new coarse ore Work on the airstrip at Christmas Creek is nearing completion and will be ready for first flights by the end of July. Scheduled Qantas flights are expected to begin in early August. Christmas Creek workers will no longer have to fly to Cloudbreak and take the 45 minute road trip to Christmas Creek. Six daily flights are expected to use the 2,500 metre strip, which has been built 6to 737 standard. scrubbing front end and a new desands/tailings circuit at the back end. Although the project is being undertaken concurrently with T155, it is not part of the T155 budget. Construction of the WPP involves: • 4,900 m3 of concrete • 3,300t steel and chute work • 10 km of pipework • 17 km of cable and wire KEY TARGET: December 2012 - wet commissioning T155: Solomon Project Located 70 kilometres north of Tom Price, Solomon is the largest iron ore start-up project currently underway in Australia with a target production of 60mtpa. The work at Solomon includes: • two OPFs • three crushing circuits • 21 km of overland conveyor lines • 125MW power station • stock yard and train load out • tailings storage facility The scrubber building at the Cloudbreak Wet Plant, June 2012 Mining activity at Solomon will initially occur at the Firetail deposit, followed by the Kings deposit five kilometres to the south of Firetail in an adjacent valley. Both will be mined using traditional truck and shovel mining methods. The Kings deposit will also be mined using an Automated Haulage System (unmanned trucks). Ore from the two deposits will be transported to Port Hedland via the new
Work at Solomon’s ore processing facilities is being fast-tracked by concrete pours, led by contractor Cimeco, that are breaking records in the Pilbara. rail spur that will join the mainline from the Chichester Hub to the Herb Elliott Port. Solomon is the site of one of the biggest earthworks construction efforts in the southern hemisphere. Since earthworks began in August 2011, more than 30 million tonnes have been moved involving eight mining fleets and more than 350 people. The three month period to the end of June has been a peak period for logistics. More than one million freight tonnes via 45 sea vessels, 400 oversized trucks and 3,000 conventional trailers have been involved in the massive effort to transport materials to the site. KEY TARGETS: Kangi camp will be fully operational in July to assist in accommodating an expected peak construction workforce of 3,600 by mid-July. October 2012 - first Firetail ore stockpile January 2013 - first Kings ore stockpile February 2013 - Firetail 100 per cent complete and 20mtpa May 2013 - Kings 100 per cent complete July 2013 - 60mtpa Locomotive 701, the first of the initial batch of eight trains manufactured for T155 by EMD in Muncie, Indiana in the US. The locomotives will be numbered from 701 to 708. 7
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