Sino Iron Project 
The Sino Iron project is a joint venture between China and Australia operated by Citic Pacific Mining
Location : Cape Preston, 100 kilometres south west of Karratha in Western Australia's Pilbara region.
Dates : 2012 and 2014
The massive Sino Iron project has been developed at Cape Preston. It is the largest magnetite mining and processing operation in Australia focused on delivering a world class magnetite iron ore development which will add value to the Western Australian economy through significant downstream processing, employment, community benefits and international technology transfer while balancing social and environmental considerations.
The project is one of China’s largest investments into the Australian resources sector and is being developed by CITIC Pacific Mining (CPM), a subsidiary of CITIC Pacific, a Hong Kong incorporated company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Production of magnetite concentrate started in late 2012 and the first shipment was sent to China in 2013.
Invensys provided the Digital Control System (DCS) for the mine's Electricity Power Station using the I/A system. Dave designed the SCD5200 RTU sub-system, used as front end processors to collect telemetry from the power station's high voltage protection relays. The relays from MiCOM and Siemens (including the Duobias and Microtapp brands) communicate using the IEC60870-5-103 protocol over multi-dropped RS485 serial links. Use of the SCD5200's dual redundant OptoNet backbone and segregation of data feeds from the 'X' and 'Y protection relays for a given item of switch-gear resulted in a fault tolerant system. Data is sent to the I/A system using multiple DNP3 over TCP/IP links.
Design work also included a Time synchronisation system for the protection relays and generator control units distributed around the plant. A fibre optic network was used to distribute IRIG-B time messages from a Tekron TCG-01E master clock to a series of Tekron isolated timing (formerly MOFR) repeaters.