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Mulga Downs


Coordinates: 22°06′04″S 118°28′12″E / 22.101°S 118.47°E / -22.101; 118.47 (Mulga Downs)

Mulga Downs Station is a pastoral lease that once operated as a sheep station but is currently operating as a cattle station in Western Australia.

It is located 96 kilometres (60 mi) north east of Tom Price and 167 kilometres (104 mi) south west of Marble Bar in the Pilbara region.

The property currently occupies an area of 950,000 acres (384,451 ha), including parts of the Fortescue River floodplain and the Chichester Range; the homestead is situated near the northern boundary of the property about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of the ghost town of Wittenoom. Almost the entire area is covered by granted mining tenements or applications that are pending. The Cloud Break mine, operated by Fortescue Metals Group, is situated within the boundaries of the station.

The Lockyer brothers owned the property in 1891, and transferred 3,000 sheep, 300 cattle and 300 horses from another of their properties, Cooya Pooya, to Mulga Downs for fattening the same year.


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