The Tallering Peak Hematite Operation commenced production of high quality lump and fine hematite ores in February 2004 and achieved its target production rate of 3 Mtpa in the first quarter of the 2006 financial year.

Located 175 kilometres east of Geraldton, Tallering Peak is a modern efficient mining operation with a sustainable Life of Mine Plan that should see the mine continue to produce 3 Mtpa each year until 2013.

Ore mined at Tallering Peak is crushed and screened on site before being loaded onto trucks for a 75 kilometre journey to Mullewa, where it is then loaded into ore wagons at a purpose-built rail loading facility and railed directly to the Port of Geraldton. Ore is stored in a large 160,000 tonne storage shed for loading onto Panamax-sized ore carriers for export to our customers in China.

The Company continues to explore in and around Tallering Peak with the intention of finding more ore and extending the LOM at Tallering Peak.

Mount Gibson has expanded the workforce and bought a new fleet of trucks and excavators for Tallering Peak to ensure the mine continues to achieve a sustainable production rate for at least the next 6 years, and probably longer.

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