Reclaimer at Nelson Point Port Hedland
This is a picture or a reclaimer that scoops up stored iron ore that was left by the stacker. At the bottom right side of the pictutre you can make out the large rotating buckets that scoop up the iron ore for loading onto the massive ships.
The iron ore is channeled along long conveyorbelts to it final destination.
These too, are big buggers!!
November 7th, 2005 at 10:53 am
Did you have to get a special pass or something to be able to go this close to this sort of machinery?
November 8th, 2005 at 10:29 am
I worked at the place, so no special pass required. I did have to have a lot of safety inductions and be super careful as getting squished could be a distinct possibility. Places like this is Austrailia are quite safe as things are put in place to prevent serious accidents. The same cant be said for poorer countries around the worll though!
November 9th, 2005 at 10:32 am
So have you been to any of these “poorer countries” and experienced their mining conditions?
November 11th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
I haven’t been to these places personally, but I know from researching it that they would not have any safety equipment as standard which is a bit scary when you are working in these sort of conditions.