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Deflector Mine

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Deflector Mine

Location: 170 Km E from Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia

Address:

Suite 4, Level 3 South Shore Centre 85 South Perth Esplanade PO Box 876; South Perth WA 6951
South Perth
Western Australia, Australia
6151

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Overview

Mine TypeUnderground
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Gold
  • Copper
Mining Method
  • Longhole open stoping
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SnapshotThe Deflector Underground mine is a part of the Deflector Operation.
Related AssetDeflector Operation

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Red 5 Ltd. 100 % Indirect
On June 19, 2024, Silver Lake advised that the proposed merger between Silver Lake and Red 5 Limited by way of scheme of arrangement has now been implemented. All Silver Lake shares have been transferred to Red 5.

Silver Lake (Deflector) Pty Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Silver Lake Resources Ltd) operate the Deflector Gold Copper Mine.

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Deposit type

  • Orogenic
  • Vein / narrow vein

Summary:

The deposit type is classified as a hybrid Archean orogenic gold-copper deposit within the Gullewa greenstone sequence. The deposit comprises a series of en-echelon veins hosted within a flexure in the greenstone stratigraphy.

Locally, the mineralisation is hosted in five main vein sets, the Western, Central, Da Vinci, Contact and Deflector South West Lodes. Ongoing work at Deflector Southwest indicates that it is likely the continuous strike extension of Western domain. The main lodes are narrow, sub-parallel, fault-hosted, quartz-sulphide veins within a thick sequence of high-Mg basalt intruded by a series of dacitic, dolerite, and lamprophyric dykes. The mafic sequence is bound in the east by a volcanic-clastic unit, and in the west by an ultramafic unit. The metamorphic grade is defined as lower green-schist facies.

The Deflector resource extents are 1,600m strike, 430m across strike and 630m below surface and open at depth. These extents host approximately 56 known ore zones (ore domains). The ore zones vary between 0.3 to 5m in width. Domain continuity was extrapolated to half the average drill spacing.

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Milling equipment has not been reported.

Processing

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Production

CommodityProductUnits2023202220212020201920182017
Gold Metal in ore koz  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe
Copper Metal in ore t  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe
Copper Metal in concentrate t  ....  Subscribe2,7673,4004,599
Copper Concentrate kt  ....  Subscribe14
Gold Equivalent Metal in conc./ doré oz  ....  Subscribe97,063

Operational metrics

Metrics202320222021202020192017
Ore tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe633,896 t429,614 t
Tonnes milled  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe607,116 t444,987 t
Annual processing capacity  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe480,000 t

Production Costs

CommodityUnits2020201920182017
Credits (by-product) Gold AUD  ....  Subscribe -123 / oz  
All-in sustaining costs (sold) Gold AUD  ....  Subscribe 1,048 / oz **  
All-in sustaining costs (AISC) Gold AUD 1,190 / oz **   1,018 / oz **  
** Net of By-Product.

Financials

Units20202017
Revenue M AUD  ....  Subscribe 97.3  
Pre-tax Income M AUD -17.9  
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Heavy Mobile Equipment

Fleet data has not been reported.

Personnel

Mine Management

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