Mike Bannear

I am Manager, Growth Studies at SIMEC Mining, a company that owns and operates an iron ore mine in the Middleback Ranges in South Australia.I specialise in driving major growth projects, leading transformational change, and leading high performance, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver in a complex and fast paced environment. A …

Petrography and trace element signatures of iron-oxides in …

The Middleback Ranges BIFs form part of the metasedimentary Hutchinson Group in the northeastern Eyre Peninsula (Fig. 1).Recent isotopic and geochemical data suggests this sedimentary succession consists of three distinct subgroups deposited between ∼2550 and ∼1730 Ma (Szpunar et al., 2011).The >20 discrete iron ore deposits …

Roger Pengelley

South Middleback Ranges, Whyalla Operator HWE Mining Mar 2009 - Sep 2009 7 months. South Middleback Ranges Whyalla Operator BHP Billiton Sep 2007 - Feb 2009 1 year 6 months. Ravensthorpe Proprietor Pengelley Vending Oct 2000 - Oct 2005 5 …

The Iron Ores of the Middleback Ranges, South Australia

The Middleback Ranges are a series of parallel northsouth ridges on the eastern side of the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, about 20 miles inland from the Spencer Gulf, as shown in Fig. 1. They extend for some 20 miles across the centre of the County of York. North of them, on the same line of strike, in, the County of Manchester, is a disconnected series …

Episodic mafic magmatism in the Eyre Peninsula

The Middleback Ranges (MR) is a ~60 km long, N-S-striking metallogenic belt in Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, comprising more than 20 iron ore deposits (Fig. 1).The belt has been and continues to be the most important iron ore resource in the state, with hematite and magnetite reserves of 32.2 Mt and 56 Mt, respectively, at ~50–55% Fe …

Magnetite: South Australia's potential | Energy & Mining

The iron oxide mineral magnetite as Fe 3 O 4 has a mass percent of 72.36% Fe and 27.64% O and typically occurs as a natural ore containing 15–40% Fe. Historically hematite direct shipping ore (DSO) has been the preferred source of iron ore globally, with significant resources located on several continents, including Australia in the Hamersley Range, …

Whyalla News

BGC Contracting Whyalla is set to slash up to 125 jobs at its Iron Knob and Southern Middleback Ranges sites. whyallanewsonline.au. BCG to slash 126 jobs.

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Iron Ore | Energy & Mining

Low-grade ore. Low-grade ore is a term applied to iron-rich rocks with cut-off grades in the range of 25�30% Fe. It was the main supply of iron ore for many centuries of the World's early history of production of iron. Since the 1950s North …

Mike Bannear

I am Manager, Growth Studies at SIMEC Mining, a company that owns and operates an iron ore mine in the Middleback Ranges in South Australia. I specialise in driving major growth projects, leading ...

Grade Control Paper 2

Grade Control Paper 2. Grade Control in the Southern Middleback Ranges — A Case Study D Crawford1, P Leevers2, S Parsons3, G Solly4 and S Nielsen5 ABSTRACT Hematite ore has been mined in the Southern Middleback Ranges as blast furnace feed for the steelworks at Whyalla, by what was then BHP, since 1991. With the …

Justin Hughes

Currently working as a Process Technician / Electrician at the Iron Duke mine Concentrator in the Southern Middleback Ranges | Learn more about Justin Hughes's work experience, education, connections & more by visiting their profile on LinkedIn

Petrographic and geochronological constraints on the

The Middleback Ranges (MR) is a 60 km-long metallogenetic belt hosting iron ores and located in the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia (Fig. 1).These ores are associated with banded iron formation (BIF) that were initially considered as Paleoproterozoic (∼2.0 Ga; Parker et al., 1988) but more recently are recognized as Late …