Subscribe to RSS feedShip ordered from Esperance as stockpile smoulders
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Aug 19, 2009 12:21 PM
A tanker was ordered to leave the port of Esperance yesterday as fire crews dealt with a smouldering pile of nickel sulphide concentrate initially thought by locals to be a fire.
The concentrate was in the port's Black Swan storage shed but Western Australian transport minister Simon O'Brien said the volume was small and there were no flames.
The concentrate is known to combust if moisture content is not maintained.
Mr O'Brien said...
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