Port Latta is a locality in
North West Tasmania, with a processing plant and port used to export iron ore from the
Savage River mine.
Ore is transported from mine to port by a
slurry pipeline
A slurry pipeline is a specially engineered pipeline used to move ores, such as coal or iron, or mining waste, called tailings, over long distances. A mixture of the ore concentrate and water, called slurry, is pumped to its destination and the w ...
, which is 85 km long and paralleled by Pipeline Road. After de-watering, the ore is loaded onto ships via conveyor belts. The capacity of the mine, pipeline and conveyor belt is about 2.4MTpa.
The mine and port opened in 1967,
Pipeliner
and was still operating in 2021 with an expected life of mine to 2035 as per their 2020 yearly report.
References
Localities of Circular Head Council
Latta
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