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Rio Tinto cranking it up at Gudai-Darri

RIO TINTO is spending about $130 million upgrading chutes and conveyor belts on the processing plant at its newest mine in the Pilbara, Gudai-Darri, to boost capacity from the nameplate 43 million tonnes per annum to 50Mtpa.

Autonomous trucks at Gudia-Darri.

Autonomous trucks at Gudia-Darri.

Moving into production in 2022, the $3.1 billion Gudai-Darri iron ore mine reached that nameplate capacity fewer than 12 months after first ore. To get the mine to 50Mtpa, an existing incremental crushing...

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