ROY HILL LOADS INAUGURAL IRON ORE SHIPMENTS FOR ASIA

West Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart is on the cusp of sending her first iron ore shipment to Asia.

The bulk carrier, MV Anangel Explorer, docked late yesterday at the newly completed Roy Hill wharf in Port Hedland and is being loaded.

"This is a truly momentous

"To paraphrase the great Sir Winston Churchill, may I say to the employees of Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hill, the light of history shall shine on all your hard hats, and the first Roy occasion," Mrs Rinehart said in a statement issued to media. Hill ship," Mrs Rinehart was quoted as saying in the media statement.