A powerful tropical cyclone which pounded Australia's leading iron ore region at the weekend appears to have passed without causing any serious damage and shipping operations have already resumed in the area.
Port Hedland, the region's largest iron ore terminal, closed the anchorage for 66 hours and the port for a total of 52 hours due to Tropical Cyclone Lua, which crossed the coast some 100km north in a sparsely populated area on Saturday afternoon.