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Electrifying the Pilbara

Australia's largest mining region is at the start of a pivot

Munira Rajkotwalla
In a region where and haul roads stretch for hundreds of kilometres through red dust, the scale of electrifying large mining vehicles is immense.

In a region where haul roads stretch for hundreds of kilometres through red dust, the scale of electrifying large mining vehicles is immense. | Credits: totajla via Shutterstock

In the sun-blasted, iron-rich expanse of the Pilbara, the road to decarbonising mining is rugged, but increasingly within reach.  The epicentre of Australia's iron ore and LNG exports, the Pilbara generates...

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