METAL DETECTIVE

Grinding mills and the Holy Grail

LATER this month, a couple of huge grinding mills will land on a Pilbara dock. Their arrival will herald the latest effort – in this instance by a Chinese company – to achieve the Holy Grail of successful downstream processing of WA iron ore. <I><b>The Metal Detective</I> by Stephen Bell</b>

Stephen Bell

The mills, among the biggest and most powerful in the world, were recently loaded onto a ship in Changshu, in China’s Yangtze River Delta, and are now making their way to Cape Preston. Expected to arrive...

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