A tropical cyclone smashed into Australia's northwest coast as a category 5 storm on Friday, setting new wind speed records, but largely spared populated regions including the world's largest iron ore export hub at Port Hedland, authorities said on Friday. (Reporting by Melanie Burton; Editing by Kim Coghill)
+613 9286 1421; Reuters Messaging: melanie.burton.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) MELBOURNE, April 17 (Reuters) - BHP Group said
its iron ore operations in Western Australian were running as
normal after cyclone Ilsa made landfall on Friday, a spokeperson
said on Monday.
"Our people are safe and there was no significant damage to
our sites. Operations are running as normal," the spokesperson
said.
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