Every day, Fenix Resources' road trains travel a combined 120,000 kilometres, the equivalent of three laps around the planet, hauling iron ore across WA's Mid West, and now former Wallaby John Welborn reckons a $300 million shortcut could help transform the region's mining industry, provided he can get the economics right, keep shareholders happy and resist talking about rugby long enough to build the bloody thing.
The WA Mining Club wanted Aaron Morey’s last word on Four Corners – what it got was a more revealing argument about mining, technology and the dangerous appeal of simple answers.
