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Operational Site

Christmas Creek

The home of Fortescue’s Green Energy Hub in the Chichester Ranges, located on Nyiyaparli Country.

Operational Site Data

  • Location

    Australia

  • Product

    Hematite

  • Capacity

    100 million tonnes PA (together with Cloudbreak)

  • Status

    Operational

Christmas Creek is the second mine in Fortescue’s Chichester Hub. With two ore processing facilities, this site has an annual iron ore capacity of over 50 million tonnes.

The first processing plant crushes and screens high-grade ore, while the second utilises a wet high-intensity magnetic separator (WHIMS) to increase outputs and performance.

Newsroom

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    13 May 2021

    Faces of Fortescue - Meet Steven Streat

    Steven Streat, Service Person at Christmas Creek, volunteers his own time to arrange the collection of used drink cans and steel items at Christmas Creek and transports them to Wheelchairs for Kids WA. Wheelchairs for Kids WA then recycles them and uses the funds to give children all over the world the gift of mobility.
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    14 October 2020

    Fortescue’s Eliwana mine delivers jobs for Aboriginal people

    Fortescue Metals Group recently celebrated the graduation of the latest Vocational Training and Employment Centre (VTEC) trainees, who will commence full time employment at the Company’s Eliwana, Solomon and Christmas Creek mine sites in roles spanning drill and blast, dewatering and fixed plant operations.
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    6 August 2020

    VTEC graduates inspire change in Aboriginal communities

    Fortescue Metals Group’s Vocational Training and Employment Centre program continues to pave sustainable career pathways for Aboriginal Australians, with the most recent group of graduates commencing employment at Christmas Creek.
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    23 June 2020

    Fortescue automation deployment reaches significant milestone

    Fortescue Metals Group celebrated an important milestone in the rollout of autonomous haulage at the Chichester Hub with the conversion of the 100th autonomous truck. The full conversion of 108 haul trucks at the Chichester Hub, which comprises the Christmas Creek and Cloudbreak mines, is expected to be completed in September 2020.
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    4 March 2020

    Coronavirus (COVID-19) update

    Fortescue Metals Group (Fortescue) is pleased to report that our team member at Christmas Creek who presented with symptoms that met the Department of Health’s minimum criteria for testing on 3 March 2020 had a negative test result and does not have COVID-19.

Sights on Site

Decarbonisation at Christmas Creek

As the home of our Green Energy Hub and Green Metal Project, Christmas Creek is a key driver in eliminating our carbon emissions. The renewable innovations refined and produced here are marked steps forward in our race to Real Zero.

  • Green Energy Hub

    The Hub combines a liquified and gaseous hydrogen production plant and refuelling station, and test and trial grounds for prototype equipment developed by Fortescue team.

  • Green Metal Project

    Christmas Creek is also home to our Green Metal Project which represents a step forward in our ambition to produce green metal at a commercial scale in the Pilbara, with first production anticipated in 2025. Christmas Creek is also home to our Green Metal Project which represents a step forward in our ambition to produce green metal at a commercial scale in the Pilbara, with first production anticipated in 2025. 

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    Solar operations

    A 60MW solar farm powers daytime operations at the Chichester Hub (consisting of our Cloudbreak and Christmas Creek sites). This displaces around 100 million litres of diesel every year.

Green Energy Innovation

To decarbonise our operations, we continuously test and trial sustainable technologies at our Green Energy Hub. This includes prototypes such as an Offboard Power Unit (OPU), our battery electric haul truck prototype ‘Roadrunner’, and our 3MW heavy mobile fast charger.

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Zero Emissions by 2030

Real Zero is our plan to eliminate all emissions across our operations, without voluntary carbon offsets. For the benefit of our planet, our shareholders, and future generations.

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Global Operations

Our Metals business includes iron ore operations in the Pilbara and exploration projects across the globe, spanning sites from Australia to Latin America and Gabon.

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