Second Iron Ore Train Derails in Australia

Second Iron Ore Train Derails in Australia
Remote-controlled stackers and reclaimers moving iron ore at Rio Tinto's Port Dampier operations in Western Australia's Pilbara region. Amy Coopes/AFP/Getty Images
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MELBOURNEAn empty iron ore train has derailed in Western Australia after poor weather eroded part of the track, operator Mineral Resources Ltd said on Nov. 12, just a week after the derailing of a runaway ore train in the state’s north.

About 30 empty iron ore wagons in a 106-wagon train came off the track on Nov. 11 south of the sparsely populated town of Norseman, some 700 km east of Perth, between the port of Esperance and Mineral Resources’ Koolyanobbing mine.