When she was small, they lived in the Pilbara, forty miles north of Wittenoom.
But Rio argued that Mr Kloppers's offer undervalued its assets in the Pilbara in particular.
FIFOs (fly-in, fly-out workers), all heading to the Pilbara or the gas fields off the northwest coast.
The premier of Western Australia, the state where the Pilbara is located, is muttering about increasing royalties.
Hancock Prospecting owns fifty per cent of an iron-ore mine at Hope Downs, in the Pilbara, which opened in 2007.
He was an experienced Canadian mining executive who knew both the Pilbara and world iron markets, and she made him chief executive.
But the steely Mr Kloppers, his reputation restored, looks likely to press on as persistently as the trains rumbling across the Pilbara.
Instead, Rio struck a deal with BHP Billiton, its main competitor, to exploit jointly the vast iron-ore deposits of Western Australia's Pilbara region.
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It operates fourteen mines in the Pilbara, with a thousand miles of rail and a hundred and sixty locomotives, twenty-four hours a day, year-round.
Port Hedland had closed three main iron ore ports in the Pilbara region, the world's largest source of iron ore, as the cyclone approached.
Instead, Rio struck a deal with BHP Billiton, its main competitor, to exploit jointly the vast iron ore deposits of Western Australia's Pilbara region.
In fact, people have been living in the Pilbara for at least thirty thousand years, and there are still some six thousand Aborigines there today.
Tony Friday, chief executive of the Pilbara Regional Council, says some mining companies contribute "beyond what is reasonably expected" to host communities in the region.
Meanwhile, the Pilbara's miners are wrangling with their biggest customer.
Rinehart inherited or has acquired the rights to some of the largest mineral leases in the Pilbara, believed to contain billions of tons of minable reserves of iron ore.
Mr Albanese championed a deal in which Chinalco would double its stake in Rio to 18% and buy shares in some prize assets (including iron-ore mines in the Pilbara).
When the repeals finally came, in the early nineteen-sixties, Hancock staked his claims and, after more rounds of badgering, persuaded mining executives from Britain and the United States to invest in the Pilbara.
The deal digs Mr Albanese out of a hole the size of Tom Price, the huge iron-ore complex in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in which Chinalco stands to take a stake.
Rio Tinto also announced an extension of its joint venture with Sinosteel Corporation in Western Australia, designed to allow for a further 50 million tonnes of iron ore to be produced in the Pilbara region.
He started out as a rancher, asbestos miner, and prospector in the Pilbara, a vast sweltering wilderness in northwest Australia. (It is pronounced as two syllables: Pilbra.) In November, 1952, according to legend, he was flying in a flimsy little Auster aircraft with his wife, Hope, over the Hamersley Range, an extra-remote fastness in the Pilbara.
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