Fortescue’s Q2 iron ore shipments edge up; Iron Bridge shutdown weighs
Fortescue attributed its quarterly output to the management of wet weather impacts in the Pilbara region.
The Alice Springs-based Lhere Artepe Group has acquired 51% of the CDE Group, taking indigenous ownership of the Australian mining and civil works contracting group to 84%. CDE’s current activities include providing services to Fortescue Metals Group’s Christmas Creek iron ore mine in Western Australia through the Downer EDI contracting group, and to Xstrata for the McArthur River zinc mine in the Northern Territory.
