21-588: Goldsworthy may refer to: Places [ edit ] Goldsworthy, Western Australia , a former mining town in the Shire of East Pilbara, Australia Goldsworthy Ridge , a ridge extending north from Mount Henderson in Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica Goldsworthy, Gwennap , Cornwall, United Kingdom Goldsworthy, Crowan , Cornwall, United Kingdom Other uses [ edit ] Goldsworthy (name) Goldsworthy Productions ,
42-484: A Singaporean -based investor, Bruce Cheung, for A$ 13.5 million. Cheung's company, the Pardoo Beef Corporation, appointed Eric Golangco as the general manager. At this time the property was running 5,700 head of cattle on 1,998 square kilometres (771 sq mi). Centre-pivot irrigation is being used to produce extra hay for stock. The property also has 60 kilometres (37 mi) of ocean frontage and has
63-521: A 145-bay caravan park tourist operation. Mr S. Anderson was the proprietor of the station in 1892. Heavy rains in April of that year led to heavy stock losses with around 100 cattle, 1,500 sheep and 30 horses being lost in the deluge. In May of the same year he was thrown from his horse and sustained severe injuries, which resulted in him being taken to Roebourne for hospitalisation. Seven Aboriginal Australians were caught killing and stealing sheep from
84-594: A pamphlet issued in the early 1960s that: Furthermore: We do not ask for an export licence on terms different from those that would be applied to other persons or groups. We do ask that the following facts be considered: In February 1962, three international mining companies: the British-owned Consolidated Goldfields (Aust) Pty Ltd , Cyprus Mines Corporation of Los Angeles and Utah Construction & Mining Company of San Francisco, formed Mount Goldsworthy Mining Associates (GML). The consortium
105-762: A separate entity owned by the Thompson family until 1963 when Frank Thompson sold it to Leslie (Les) Schubert . Schubert describes the history of the station in his book Wiping Out the Tracks – The Northern Odyssey . In November 1965 Schubert swapped Pardoo along with a cash adjustment of $ 120,000 for Louisa Downs and Bohemia Downs stations in the Kimberley region. Karl Stein took over the station in January 1966. Sometime before 1977 Karl Stein retired and sold Pardoo to Russel Peake. The Leeds family purchased Pardoo from Peake and then sold
126-500: A short lived Australian production company established by actor Reg Goldsworthy Goldsworthy railway , an iron ore railway line in Australia operated by BHP See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Goldsworthy Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Goldsworthy . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
147-643: Is a (solar powered) radio repeater site to service the railway. The street layout can still be seen from the air. Pardoo Station Pardoo Station is a pastoral lease , formerly a sheep station , and now a cattle station approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Port Hedland and 121 kilometres (75 mi) north of Marble Bar , in the Pilbara region of Western Australia . 20°06′24″S 119°34′48″E / 20.10667°S 119.58000°E / -20.10667; 119.58000 The property used to be about 250,000 acres (1,000 km ) in size. It
168-627: Is on the western end of the Great Sandy Desert where it meets the Indian Ocean at the southern end of the Eighty Mile Beach . Mount Goldsworthy , located on the south western side of the lease, is the site of the first iron ore mine in the Pilbara . The Pardoo iron ore mine is located in the region, and shares the station's name. The station was sold in late 2014 by the Rogers family to
189-466: The area and also pegged mining leases there as they were on the southern end of the station, but he allowed these leases to lapse because of this embargo. The granting of the export licence did not go without controversy. Ernie Mitchell, chairman of directors of an indigenous corporation known as the Pindan Group, called for an iron ore export licence to be issued to his organisation. Mitchell argued in
210-458: The discovery of iron ore there in 1890. In 1919 Government Geologist Andrew Gibb Maitland confirmed these deposits but at the time mining them was not an economically viable proposition. In 1938 Geological Survey of Western Australia geologists Kevin Finucane and Robert Telford surveyed Mount Goldsworthy and reported preliminary estimates of more than 6,000,000 tons of iron ore at 65.66% iron. In
231-423: The first rail-delivery of iron ore was made to Finucane Island on 1 December 1965. The first 24,900 tonnes of ore was loaded at Finucane Island onto Harvey S. Mudd on 26 June 1966. The mine was hit by Cyclone Amy in 1980 but it was rebuilt. 700 people lived in 200 houses at Goldsworthy at its peak. The mine at Goldsworthy was closed on 22 December 1982 and mining operations ceased at Shay Gap in 1993. The town
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#1732858983796252-591: The geographical feature Mount Goldsworthy ) is a former mining town in Western Australia , east of Port Hedland and located in the Shire of East Pilbara . It was the first iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The explorer Francis Thomas Gregory reported seeing iron ore in the region during his Pilbara explorations in late 1861 and the Government Geologist H.P. Woodward confirmed
273-617: The lead up to the Second World War , due to the classification of iron as a strategic material the Commonwealth of Australia placed an embargo on the export of ore. The export embargo was lifted in December 1960 and competition to develop the mine commenced in earnest with the government intending to issue an export licence for ore mined at the site. Frank Thompson Jr, owner of Pardoo Station had established wells, windmills and paddocks in
294-515: The lease for Pardoo to Graeme and Judith Rogers. Pardoo is operating under the Crown Lease numbers CL694-1967 and CL194-1983 and has the associated Land Act numbers LA3114/446 and LA398/718. The station is estimated to have a size of 500,000 acres (2,000 km ) and in 2012 was stocked with approximately 7,000 Santa Gertrudis cattle . In 2012 the station lay directly in the path of Cyclone Lua and most staff were evacuated to Port Hedland to wait
315-449: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldsworthy&oldid=1215211583 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Goldsworthy, Western Australia Goldsworthy (named after
336-483: The property until at least 1951, in addition to the family merino stud property Nardlah near Broomehill in the Great Southern region of the state. In 1951 a seventy-year-old man, Hans Pederson, fell 30 feet (9.1 m) from a windmill tower. The Royal Flying Doctor Service sent a plane from Port Hedland but it arrived too late and Pederson had died. Pardoo was an outcamp of De Grey Station but became
357-520: The station in 1893. They were sentenced to four years hard labour and eighteen lashes with the cat o' nine tails . In 1913 the station had an estimated flock of 20,000 sheep, which were to be shorn using the 12 stands in the shearing shed in July of that year. The area was flooded following heavy rains in 1929. Frank Snellgrove Thompson owned the station from at least 1929 until his death in 1937. His son, Frank Finlayson Thompson, took over control of
378-494: The storm out. The Anderson family and two station hands remained at the property. The area was hit by 270-kilometre-per-hour (170 mph) winds and heavy rain, with many trees uprooted; the roadhouse owner, Janet Robb, described the property as looking like "an absolute warzone". Pardoo also took the brunt of Cyclone Rusty in February 2013, recording 250 millimetres (10 in) of rain in 24 hours along with strong winds. Stock
399-452: Was abandoned in 1992. Upon closure, all buildings were removed, all vegetation not indigenous to the local area was burnt, and the roads torn up. This was done in accordance with the government's policy of regrowth to avoid the occurrence of ghost towns . Today, very little remains on the site to indicate that the town ever existed. The pit that was the mine still exists, but is flooded. The railway to other mines passes nearby, and there
420-399: Was granted an export licence in early 1963 to ship 4 million tonnes of iron ore per year from a port to be built at Finucane Island at Port Hedland , 100 km west. The consortium signed a contract with Japanese steel mills in February 1965 with a stipulation that the first shipment of ore had to be made within 15 months. Construction of the port and town commenced in February 1965 and
441-456: Was killed from hypothermia and the homestead was damaged by the category four cyclone. Ten years later in April 2023 Cyclone Ilsa passed directly over Pardoo as a Category 5 storm, causing over $ 4 million (AUD) of damage to the nearby roadhouse, tearing roofs off buildings and overturning road trucks. Pardoo's new manager Scott Fraser had been there three weeks when Ilsa hit. Pardoo had 20 centre-pivot irrigation plants, used to grass feed
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