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Port Latta, Tasmania

Coordinates: 40°51′07″S 145°22′52″E / 40.852°S 145.381°E / -40.852; 145.381
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Port Latta
Tasmania
Iron ore pelletizing plant
Port Latta is located in Tasmania
Port Latta
Port Latta
Coordinates40°51′07″S 145°22′52″E / 40.852°S 145.381°E / -40.852; 145.381
Population0 (2016 census)
LGA(s)Circular Head Council
Localities 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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