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Yampi Sound, in the Buccaneer Archipelago, was Western Australia’s iron-ore province before the Pilbara export ports. Japanese interest in the 1930s was blocked; BHP mined Cockatoo Island from 1951 and Koolan from the mid-1960s. This frame is the later seaward pit, benches dropping to the tide line. It is not the 1950s crushing plant — those SLWA photographs are HOLD.
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-16.1500, 123.7500
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2017
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Koolan Island Seaward Benches, 2017: Iron Ore Mining in Yampi Sound
Koolan Island seaward benches, 2017
2017
Explore the Koolan Island seaward benches in 2017. This image captures the industrial iron-ore pit and benches dropping to the tide line in Yampi Sound.
Yampi Sound, in the Buccaneer Archipelago, was Western Australia’s iron-ore province before the Pilbara export ports. Japanese interest in the 1930s was blocked; BHP mined Cockatoo Island from 1951 and Koolan from the mid-1960s. This frame is the later seaward pit, benches dropping to the tide line. It is not the 1950s crushing plant — those SLWA photographs are HOLD.
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