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By this week, Fortescue's burgeoning operation had become home to about 600 staff, preparing for the company's first iron ore shipment in May next year. [Fortescue] hopes to hit 200 million tonnes at some stage, making it, as the company's motto says "the new force in iron ore&qu...

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Published inAdvertiser (Adelaide, Australia : 1931)
Main Author CAMERON ENGLAND at CLOUD BREAK MINE
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Adelaide, S. Aust Nationwide News Pty Ltd 01.09.2007
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Forrest, Andrew
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Summary:By this week, Fortescue's burgeoning operation had become home to about 600 staff, preparing for the company's first iron ore shipment in May next year. [Fortescue] hopes to hit 200 million tonnes at some stage, making it, as the company's motto says "the new force in iron ore". The problem was, Mr [Andrew Forrest] says, their exploration models told them to look for outcropping, plunging ore bodies, which were not necessarily wide. The Fortescue team realised that the ore bodies they were looking at were actually flat, shallow-banded formations.
ISSN:1039-4192