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I made a virtue of necessity in the ore car.
Stephen Fairfax: The ore car demonstration was an outgrowth of Magplane, a magnetically levitated train concept.
They called my bluff when they got a contract for the ore car demo.
We had to design the ore car system so that it could be restarted after a power failure.
So I took the job, hired 6 engineers, and spent 1996 to 2000 working on the ore car demo.
The ore car system was intended to dramatically lower the cost of transporting ore to the processing mill.
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The most common method of ore recovery is underground mining, with conventional drilling and blasting followed by scraping or mechanical loading into ore cars.
The operations of Rio's 15 mines, four ports, 1,700km of rail, 180 locomotives, 11,000 ore cars and 361 other giant vehicles in the Pilbara have consistently evolved with increasing automation.
Infrastructure included a weight scale for ore cars and an overhead tram to carry ore across the river from the reduction mill to the smelter.
Assessing steel demand, in particular, has become a subject of almost obsessive interest among many shipping executives and economists as a barometer of emerging markets' health and as an indicator of demand for things like iron ore and cars.
A look at BNSF Railway's website shows that a standard ore hopper train car has a 100-tonne capacity.
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