On March 16, the Australian iron ore exploration company Murchison Metals Ltd (Murchison) has announced that operations have resumed at the Jack Hills Stage 1 iron ore project in Western Australia, following their temporary suspension on February 22, 2011 due to regional flooding and road closures.
Crosslands Resources Ltd, which owns and operates the Jack Hills project and is a 50-50 joint venture of Murchison with Mitsubishi Development (Mitsubishi), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan, has advised Murchison that iron ore mining resumed with a single shift on Sunday March 13, with a double shift scheduled to resume by the end of this week.
The temporary suspension of operations resulted in the deferral of two export shipments from the Geraldton port that had been scheduled to occur in March.