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 […]
Now these beasties are quite intimidating from this distance. Now imagine being behind them when they have a belly full of iron ore in them. I was in a big 4X4 and these were 10 feet in front of me going up a steep hill (a muddy one) and just the wheels were much taller […]
Yet more red earth and blue sky!
This thing is a settling tank, which is used to get really fine particles of iron ore out of suspension. Imagine a muddy river and all the stuff that is making the mud look, well, muddy. Well that stuff is still worth money, so it needs separating from the […]
This is a picture of a stacker at Port Hedland in Western Australia at the ship loading facility. I lived about 3 minutes drive from this beast of an operation. I will be putting images of those up soon which are in stark contrast to the one above.
So what does the above stacker do? Well […]
Ever seen Crocodile Dundee or Bush Tucker man and if you are a little like me images like this leave you in an awe struck state. Now imagine this…having this image behind you as well and all around is scrub land with the odd set of rock outcrops. Oh yeah, it is as hot as […]
This is a picture of Mt Whaleback in Western Australia. This is about 0.5KM deep, 0.5KM across and 1Km in length. Now what I think is a bit crazy is the fact that this hole in the earth used to be a mountain!!!
This is is from the sky, http://www.hyvista.com/iom/iom_jan05.html
The picture I took is from 1995.
If […]
This tunnel is about 1400M underground and as with the the big hole, I think you will have to concur that that is a big tunnel.
What is more amazing is the fact that it was dug out using picks and shovels and the guy on the left is 6 foot 9!!!!
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Answers on a postcard as […]
That is 700M from top to bottom. And I am told that the mine goes a further 450M below that level.
So I think you will agree that that is one big ass hole.
Dr Rock