Английская Википедия:Hamersley Range
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox mountain The Hamersley Range is a mountainous region of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The range was named on 12 June 1861 by explorer Francis Thomas Gregory after Edward Hamersley, a prominent promoter of his exploration expedition to the northwest.[1] Karijini National Park (formerly known as Hamersley Range National Park) lies within the range.
History
The traditional Aboriginal owners of the area that the range runs through are the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples.[2]
In 1999 a small range within the Hamersley was named the Hancock Range after the Hancock family, who were pioneers in the area. The Hancock range is east of Karijini National Park in a region of broad valleys and peaks that rise to almost Шаблон:Convert. The Hancock Range is close to Mulga Downs Station, a property owned by the Hancock family and where Lang Hancock is buried.[3]
Geography
The range runs from the Fortescue River in the northeast, Шаблон:Convert to the south. The range contains Western Australia's highest point, Mount Meharry, which reaches approximately Шаблон:Convert AHD. There are many extensively eroded gorges, such as Wittenoom Gorge. The twenty highest peaks in Western Australia are in the Hamersley Range.[4] Peaks in the range include Mount Bruce (Шаблон:Convert), Mount Nameless/Jarndunmunha (Шаблон:Convert), Mount Reeder Nichols (Шаблон:Convert), Mount Samson (Шаблон:Convert), Mount Truchanas (Шаблон:Convert) and Mount Tom Price (Шаблон:Convert).[5]
Karijini National Park (formerly Hamersley National Park), one of Australia's largest national parks, is centred in the range.
Mining
The range contains large deposits of iron ore, producing a large proportion of Australia's iron ore exports. It is predominately associated with banded iron formation.[6][7][8] Western Australia's major iron producers have mines, communities and railways that occur along the range.[9] Rio Tinto operates several iron ore mines within the range, including Mount Tom Price, Marandoo, Brockman, Channar, West Angelas, Mesa A mine, and Paraburdoo. Over 100 million tonnes of iron ore is removed from the range every year.[10]
Existence of crocidolite (blue asbestos) in the Hamersley Range has been known since 1915. In 1917 crocidolite was discovered at Wittenoom, it was mined from the 1930s and was discontinued in 1966 because of unprofitable production costs. Wittenoom was Australia's only blue asbestos mining town.[11][12]
Juukan Gorge
A cave in Juukan Gorge, about Шаблон:Convert from Mt Tom Price, was one of the oldest in the western Pilbara region, and the only inland site in Australia to show signs of continuous human occupation through the Ice Age.[13] The cave was destroyed by Rio Tinto along with another Aboriginal sacred site on 23 May 2020[13] as part of their expansion of the Brockman 4 mine.[14]
See also
References
Further reading
- Marshall, Lloyd (1966) New Iron Age in the Hamersleys in the Weekend News, Sept. 3, 1966.
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- ↑ MacLeod, W. N. (1966) The geology and iron deposits of the Hamersley Range area. Bulletin Шаблон:Webarchive (Geological Survey of Western Australia), No. 117
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- ↑ Iron fact sheet - Australian Resources and Deposits Шаблон:Webarchive Geoscience Australia website, accessed: 7 November 2010
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