Despite cyclone activity depressing third quarter production, iron ore production at BHP Billiton's Western Australian operations still hit record levels in the nine months to the end of March.
Production of iron ore in Western Australia rose 22% over the nine month period from a year earlier. For all of the mining group's operations, iron ore output rose 20% to 118.6m tonnes.
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