Mount Gibson Sea Wall Collapse

The news has been welcomed in the west kimberley where hundreds of jobs have been lost in recent years due to a string of mine closures.

Mount gibson sea wall collapse. Mining was interrupted in late 2014 by a seawall failure which flooded the main pit by which time koolan island had exported in excess of 22mt of ore for mount gibson. Junior miner mt gibson iron has secured an insurance payout for the seawall collapse at its koolan island iron ore mine which led to the closure of the operation and the loss of 360 jobs. Operations at the mine off the kimberley coast were suspended in november 2014 after the main pit was flooded. Mgx is an independent australian producer of high quality direct shipping grade iron ore products with assets in the kimberley and mid west regions of western australia.

A company photograph of mount gibson iron ltd s operations on koolan island off the coast of wa. Last week the mine s pit wall collapsed and filled with seawater. The junior miner and subsidiaries aztec resources and. No one was injured by the breach and all non essential operations were immediately suspended.

The main pit of the koolan island hematite operation flooded late last year after pit wall instability combined with high tide night caused a section of the wall to collapse. Mount gibson iron has reduced its ore reserves estimate by more than 80 per cent after the seawall collapse at one of its mines. Miner mount gibson iron has announced it will spend nearly 100 million rebuilding a collapsed seawall in order to restart production at the remote koolan island mine. Production and sales of high grade hematite recommenced in april 2019.

Mount gibson iron is suing an engineering firm for negligence over the catastrophic collapse of a seawall at a wa mine site last year. The junior miner and subsidiaries aztec resources and koolan iron ore have lodged a writ in the wa supreme court against engineering firm ghd for negligence. It s the third time in a month that the wall has been compromised with the latest slump bringing the wall down to below the tide mark allowing seawater to completely flood the 2km long pit. A section of the koolan island iron ore mine off the kimberley coast of wa is now flooded to sea level after it s sea wall collapsed on tuesday.

Mount gibson iron is suing the engineers responsible for building the koolan island mine seawall which collapsed last year flooding the mine. Mount gibson iron is suing an engineering firm after a seawall collapse at koolan island mine in wa.