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Drilling to prove the Goldsworthy reserve was done from a small camp: a steel shed and a row of dongas on the spinifex, shot from the top of the range. Within two years the ore was on ships at Finucane Island. This is the other Pilbara opening, separate from Hancock and Hamersley Iron.
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-20.3420, 119.5210
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1964
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Goldsworthy exploration camp, ca.1964: Pilbara Iron Ore Industry
Goldsworthy exploration camp, ca.1964
1964
Explore the 1964 Goldsworthy exploration camp in the Pilbara, where early drilling proved the iron ore reserves that helped open the region to global trade.
Drilling to prove the Goldsworthy reserve was done from a small camp: a steel shed and a row of dongas on the spinifex, shot from the top of the range. Within two years the ore was on ships at Finucane Island. This is the other Pilbara opening, separate from Hancock and Hamersley Iron.
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