Port Latta, Tasmania
Place in Tasmania, Australia
40°51′07″S 145°22′52″E / 40.852°S 145.381°E / -40.852; 145.381Localities around Port Latta: | ||
Stanley | Bass Strait | Bass Strait |
Port Latta | Rocky Cape National Park | |
Port Latta is a locality in North West Tasmania, with a processing plant and port used to export iron ore from the Savage River mine.
Ore is transported from mine to port by a slurry pipeline, which is 85 km long and paralleled by Pipeline Road. After de-watering, the ore is loaded onto ships via conveyor belts.[1] The capacity of the mine, pipeline and conveyor belt is about 2.4MTpa.
The mine and port opened in 1967,[2] and was still operating in 2021 with an expected life of mine to 2035 as per their 2020 yearly report.
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