AN ore bunker on the Teesworks site has been demolished in a controlled explosion.

The action took place on Friday night and reduced the 2,000 tonne bunker to rubble.

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The controlled demolition in the Raw Materials Handling area at Teesworks. was carried at 8pm by expert contractors MGL Demolition.

The bunker, along with the adjacent Junction House 43, stored and processed iron ore which fed the Redcar blast furnace.

These works will enable the clearance and remediation of a 530acre site as part of the UK’s largest Freeport.

Work clearing the Teesworks site started back in March with the demolition of one of the 70-metre-tall chimneys of the Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS).

The Dorman Long Tower in South Bank, Redcar along with the Gibbon Wilputte Coal bunker and the Gibbon Wilputte Battery Waste Gas Chimney was demolished in September.

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