Port Latta | |
Coordinates: | -40.852°N 145.381°W |
State: | tas |
Type: | other |
Lga: | Circular Head Council |
Pop: | 0 |
Near-Nw: | Stanley |
Near-N: | Bass Strait |
Near-Ne: | Bass Strait |
Near-E: | 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.