Yes its Iron Ore country about 1400klm North West of Perth and 450klm south of Port Hedland. Altitude about 600m ASL right in the middle of the beautiful Hammersly Ranges. Airport is called Barrimunya about 30klm from the mine and camp at Yandicoogina. Brutally hot climate with weeks on end of temps in the mid 40's.
Most of the rain here falls during thunderstorms and occasionally from Cyclonic depressions that cross the Pilbara coast. Winters are surprisingly cool ( for a Darwin resident that is ) with mornings as low as 2c ( Mt Newman records the odd frost ) and this year we quite a run of cold wet winter days 12c-15c max temps ! Didn't really make up for the 7 months of the year when temps can exceed 40c !
There is a good supply of artesian water out this way, in fact a creek system known as Willi Wolli flows all year round due to the de-watering of the Hope Downs Mine. An oasis in an otherwise very dry and desolate part of Australia.
Lots of native wildflowers thrive in this environment, The purple one is called Mulla Mulla and the red one is Sturt's Desert Pea.
View from the mine camp
