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Case study:

Western Australia Iron Ore

WAIO at a glance in FY2020

Employees State royalties and other
and contractors Total taxes paid $ payments to governments
14,118 US$3,281m US$1,756m

Western Australia Iron ore (WAIO) is an integrated system
of four processing hubs and five mines connected by more
than 1,000 kilometres of rail infrastructure and port
facilities in the Pilbara region.
The corporate headquarters of our Iron Ore business
is located in Perth.
Construction of the US$3.6 billion South Flank project
commenced in July 2018 and by the end of FY2020 was
overall 76 per cent complete. The project awarded
A$4.2 billion in contracts (including A$3.2 billion for
Western Australian-based work). South Flank reached a
construction workforce of around 3,000 people as the
project moved into its second full year of construction and
is expected to create thousands of jobs over the life of the
project. It remains on track to deliver first ore in CY2021.
BHP has contributed more than A$13 billion in iron ore
royalties in the past decade and more than A$3.3 billion in
community infrastructure, social and Indigenous programs
and training programs across the state since 2012.

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