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Projects & capability demandRio Tinto
Western Range opens with a 25 Mtpa Pilbara operating system
Rio Tinto and China Baowu opened Western Range at the Greater Paraburdoo hub. The project includes a primary crusher and an 18-kilometre conveyor to the existing processing plant, with capacity of up to 25 million tonnes a year.
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The mine is designed to sustain the established Paraburdoo system rather than operate as an isolated greenfield site. Ramp-up depends on operators, maintainers, control systems, reliability teams and the shared processing and logistics network.