Overview
Status | Care and Maintenance |
Mine Type | Open Pit |
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Mining Method |
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Production Start | ... |
Mine Life | 2050 |
Operations at the Jack Hills mine commenced late 2006. Mining operations ceased in 2012 and the Jack Hills mine was placed in a partial care and maintenance phase. Crosslands Resources Pty Ltd (the Licence Holder) is currently undertaking demobilisation and rehabilitation of the mine site.
In 2011, SRK completed a Bankable Feasibility Study for the Jack Hills Expansion Project. |
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Company | Interest | Ownership |
Crosslands Resources Pty Ltd.
(operator)
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100 %
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Direct
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Sinosteel Corp.
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100 %
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Indirect
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The Jack Hills Iron Ore Project is located on mining tenement M20/506 and lies within the Beringarra and Judal pastoral leases.
Crosslands Resources Pty Ltd (the Licence Holder) operates an open pit iron ore mine with an ore beneficiation plant, Class II putrescible landfill and a sewage treatment plant on mining tenement M20/50.
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Summary:
The Jack Hills rise up to approximately 300 m above the flat plains of the Murchison River, which is between 400 to 450 m above sea level. The hills extend for approximately 60 km, arcing north-east to south-west. The Jack Hills occur along a thin greenstone belt, within the granitic rocks and granitic gneisses of the Narryer Terrane (Aquaterra, 2010). The dominant lithologies include Banded Iron Formation (BIF), chert, quartzite, mafic and ultramafic rocks and siliciclastic rocks (Spaggiari, 2007 in Aquaterra, 2010).
The Jack Hills deposit comprises three main groups of rocks: Banded Iron Formation, Massive Iron Mineralisation, and mafic to ultramafic dykes and sills. All of which are flanked to the northwest by a massive granitic body.
The rocks are broadly similar to other Archaean greenstone belts in the Yilgarn Block in structural style and metamorphic grade. Unlike most typical greenstone belts there is little outcrop of mafic/ultramafic or felsic volcanic material, instead significant clastic meta-sedimentary sequences are exposed.
The BIF units and massive iron lenses which make up the Jack Hills ore types form the prominent ridge lines. The ridges rise above the surrounding granite flat lands, ranging from ~530 m RL to ~697 m RL at the highest point at Mt Hale.
Summary:
Conventional large-scale truck and shovel mining method.
The JHEP mine plan, which has a projected life of 39 years, envisages a high-volume strip mining method utilising large-scale mining fleet at multiple working faces to produce a consistent quality of ore feed for the processing plant, with an average life of mine strip ratio of approximately 0.94:1.
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Reserves at October 19, 2019:
Category | Tonnage | Commodity |
Total Resource
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3,890 Mt
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Iron (magnetite)
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Mine Management:
Job Title | Name | Profile | Ref. Date |
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Oct 2, 2023
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