A bad day at work

[crinkles]

http://abc.com.au/news/photos/2009/01/30/2478883.htm


these iron ore mines in NW Western Australia have their own private railway lines. pretty impressive what private funds could do.

 

[Shannow]

That's about the last thing that Rio needs at the moment.

 

[crinkles]

i've heard 1 week downtime to fix it up.

 

[Shannow]

1 week, that's not bad...

 

[aaxb970]

1 week seems pretty fast!

 

[Pablo]

That's actually quite an amazing picture. How fine is that ground ore? Interesting.


China can do without for a bit.

 

[Shannow]

Initially I thought so too.

But train tracks across the desert means that they'll skulldrag the wrecks off to the side, push the ore into piles, and relay some track.

There are some failry strong off road cranes that can do 50-60km/hr along access roads, and 100km/hr on paved roads.

No overhead lines, no shrubbery to chop down, canyons to reach down etc.

 

[Gary Allan]

..and the solar powered communications link (or whatever it is) is still standing ..

..or did they put that up after the accident

 

[Pablo]

Looks untouched!

 

[crinkles]

Originally Posted By: Pablo
That's actually quite an amazing picture. How fine is that ground ore? Interesting.


China can do without for a bit.


they would probably need to mill the ore to meet the chinese factory specs before it would get bought.

 

[crinkles]

trains aren't doing well in WA this week

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/01/2479333.htm

 

[Pablo]

Originally Posted By: crinkles
trains aren't doing well in WA this week

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/01/2479333.htm

 

[crinkles]

thing is, there is one road and one railway in and out of WA to the eastern states. There are others but it means A LOOONG detour.

one mishap and you can't go anywhere.