Onslow Iron
Project at a glance
WA Australia (Onshore)
Development phase
MINERAL RESOURCES LIMITED
$2-3 billion
The Onslow Iron project will be one of the largest iron ore projects undertaken in Western Australia. Located 150 kilometres east of Onslow in the West Pilbara region of Western Australia, the project is owned through an unincorporated joint venture between Mineral Resources (MinRes), who will manage the project, Baowu, AMCI and POSCO. Stage 1 will target an annual capacity of 35Mtpa.
MinRes will provide life-of-mine mining services to the project under crushing and mine to ship agreements. MinRes will deploy its innovative and proprietary suite of mining services assets including NextGen crushers, autonomous 320 tonne jumbo road trains and 20,000 tonne transhippers. MinRes will also own 100% of the off-site infrastructure including a private 150 km haul road, port infrastructure, transhipper wharfs and Onslow resort accommodation. Early works are underway as part of the development phase and first ore on ship targeted as early as December 2023.
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