Leaked report a glimpse into MinRes’ troubled road to nowhere

By Mark Wembridge and Mark Di Stefano – Financial Review

Described by MinRes, a major diversified miner and contractor, as one of the country’s “most impressive pieces of transport infrastructure”, the Onslow haul road is the only way to get the iron ore from the company’s biggest mine, Ken’s Bore, to its customers.

To achieve MinRes’s shipping targets, triple-trailer road trains each weighing more than a fully laden Airbus A350 aircraft have to leave every five minutes, every hour of the day, for the next three decades.