Pilbara historical timeline
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Pilbara historical timeline
This timeline is a detailed list of events and locations of the development of the Pilbara region of Western Australia
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This timeline is a detailed list of events and locations of the development of the Pilbara region of Western Australia
Western Australia
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| 1863 | Cossack Harbour and town site established | Cossack Cossack, Western Australia Cossack is an historic ghost town located 1,480 km north of Perth and 15 km from Roebourne in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The nearest town to Cossack is Wickham. At the 2006 census, Cossack had a population of 236.... |
| 1890 | Gold discovered, in Coongan River bed | Marble Bar Marble Bar, Western Australia -North Pole:An ironically named locality nearby is known as North Pole , no doubt for its heat. It is the location of rock formations considered to have evidence that puts the origin of life on earth back to 3,400–3,500 mya, due to stromatolites in particular rock sequences... |
| 1893 | Marble Bar town site gazetted | |
| 1905 | Mining starts at Wodgina mine site south of port headland | |
| July 1911 | First railway into Pilbara region is opened - connecting Port Hedland Port Hedland, Western Australia Port Hedland is the highest tonnage port in Australia and largest town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, with a population of approximately 14,000 .... with Marble Bar |
Marble Bar Railway Marble Bar Railway The isolated Port Hedland to Marble Bar railway was a Western Australian Government Railways gauge branch line that was opened in July 1911. It was the second railway in the Pilbara region running from the north coast of Western Australia... |
| November 1952 | Lang Hancock Lang Hancock Langley Frederick George "Lang" Hancock was an Australian iron ore magnate from Western Australia who maintained a high profile in the competing spheres of business and politics... flies over the Pilbara region |
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| December 1960 | Australian Government changes restrictions on iron-ore exports | Australia wide |
| March 1961 | West Australian government announces that iron-ore exploration permits will be allowed | Western Australia |
| September 1962 | CRA Rio Tinto Group The Rio Tinto Group is a diversified, British-Australian, multinational mining and resources group with headquarters in London and Melbourne. The company was founded in 1873, when a multinational consortium of investors purchased a mine complex on the Rio Tinto river, in Huelva, Spain from the... geologists identify Mount Tom Price deposits |
Mount Tom Price Tom Price, Western Australia Tom Price, situated in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, is an industrial town. The town is located inland, at the edge of the Hamersley Range... |
| January 1965 | Dampier and Mount Tom Price - construction commences at locations | |
| June 1965 | Dampier Dampier, Western Australia Dampier is a major industrial port in the north-west of Western Australia. The Dampier Port is part of the Dampier Archipelago. The port services petrochemical, salt, iron ore and natural gas export industries. Rio Tinto exports large volumes of iron ore through the port, and in September 2010... - Tom Price railway works commence |
Hamersley Iron Hamersley Iron Pilbara Iron is a wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational Rio Tinto Group, that manages assets for Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, and Robe River Iron Associates, an unincorporated joint venture between Rio and three Japanese steel companies Mitsui Iron Ore... |
| July 1966 | Tom Price to Dampier - first fully loaded ore train | |
| August 1966 | Dampier - first shipment of ore loaded | |
| 1967 | Iron ore discovered at Mount Whaleback | Newman Newman, Western Australia Newman, located about 1186 km north of Perth and 9 km north of the Tropic of Capricorn, is a town in the Pilbara region. It can be reached by the Great Northern Highway... |
| May 1967 | Hamersley Holdings Limited shares on the ASX ASX ASX may refer to:* Australian Securities Exchange, the primary stock exchange of Australia* Advanced Stream Redirector, a computer file format listing Windows Media files * Armstrong Siddeley ASX, a British experimental turbojet* John F... |
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| August 1969 | Developments of community at Karratha begin | |
| July 1970 | East Intercourse Island connected by causewy | |
| December 1975 | Cyclone Joan - flooding in Pilbara and damages Hamersley Rail | |
| October 1977 | Tom Price, Paraburdoo, Dampier and Karratha combined population passes 15,000 | |