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Hail Creek (Rio Tinto 82 per cent) 2 Maintenance work on big machinery. The mine was commissioned in late 2003 within budget and a month ahead of schedule as a 5.5 million tonnes per year operation. It came on stream at exactly the right time to take advantage of buoyant conditions in the coking coal market, a factor that had eluded the project for so many years previously. Acceptance for the product was so strong in all markets that work began almost immediately on expanding capacity to eight million tonnes per year for completion in 2006. This is an excellent example of how Rio Tinto’s focus on assets with large reserves provides options to expand in line with demand. A turning point towards achieving commercial viability for the project came from a Japanese customer who suggested Hail Creek produce two coking coal products – a high value, low ash coal for which steel makers would pay a premium when their furnaces were working at full capacity, and a cheaper medium ash product for times when flagging demand meant steel production was curtailed. This flexibility would allow Hail Creek to adapt more readily to market demands. Hail Creek coal is used in steel plants across east Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Japan and China look likely to remain the biggest customers. 2 33
34 Dampier (Rio Tinto 65 per cent) Main image: Evaporation ponds at Dampier Operations. 1 One of several hundred Aboriginal rock engravings protected by Rio Tinto Minerals on its property at Dampier. 2 Loading dry salt for transfer to Dampier harbour salt loading facility. Dazzling white salt from the sea, manufactured by energy from the sun. That’s Rio Tinto Minerals – Dampier Operations in Western Australia, one of Rio Tinto’s more unusual mineral production sites. Since the first shipment of 19,000 tonnes in April 1972, to Central Glass in Japan, annual sales from Dampier Operations have increased from one million to eight million tonnes per year. The company’s capacity was boosted by the purchase of the Lake MacLeod operation in 1978 and the Port Hedland operation in 2001. The annual production capacity is nine million tonnes. Salt is mainly used in the chemical industry in the production of plastics, glass, detergents and a variety of chemicals. The major markets are in Asia. In 1997 Rio Tinto Minerals also commissioned a 1.5 million tonnes per year gypsum operation at Lake MacLeod, which provides high quality, natural gypsum to the wallboard, plaster, cement and agriculture markets in Africa, Asia and Australia. 1 2
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