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Sunrise Dam Mine

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit & Underground
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Sub-level open stoping (SLOS)
  • Open stoping
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SnapshotSunrise Dam gold mine (SDGM) is a production stage property with an active underground and open pit mine. SDGM’s underground mine produces approximately 2.7Mt of ore annually and it is the primary source of ore.

Approximately 1Mt of ore is mined from the Golden Delicious open pit annually. Ore from this open pit displaced low-grade stockpile material from the mill feed from mid-2021.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
AngloGold Ashanti plc. 100 % Indirect
AngloGold Ashanti Australia Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of AngloGold Ashanti pls., is the owner and operator of the Sunrise Dam operation in Australia.

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Deposit type

  • Vein / narrow vein
  • Paleoplacer
  • Breccia pipe / Stockwork
  • Sediment-hosted
  • Mesothermal

Summary:

Deposit type
Sunrise Dam is a mesothermal gold deposit located in the Archaean greenstone belts of Western Australia. The deposit is complex and structurally controlled with multiple ore zones displaying differing characteristics, from ductile shear zones to brittle stockwork complexes to intrusive hosted mineralisation.

Mineralisation style
At Sunrise Dam, gold mineralisation is structurally controlled, and vein-hosted.

The style of mineralisation can be differentiated depending on the structure or environment in which it is hosted.

There are three dominant styles recognised:
• Shear-related and high-strain e.g. Sunrise Shear Zone
• Stockwork development in planar faults with brittle characteristics (these occur in all rock types and are commonly concentrated at contacts within the volcanic stratigraphy or the porphyry margin and within hinge positions within the magnetite shales) e.g. Cosmo, Dolly and Vogue orebodies
• Placer-style mineralisation hosted within the palaeo-fluvial sediments, near-surface

Gold mineralisation at Golden Delicious is hosted by a suite of granitoids, which intrude intermediate to mafic volcanic and volcaniclastic greenschist host rocks. The area has been deeply weathered, partly eroded and blanketed by transported lateritic gravels.

Mineralisation characteristics
Mineralisation is typically hosted in quartz-carbonate veins and breccias with varying quantities of pyrite and arsenopyrite. Gold occurs as free gold and is also occluded in the sulphides. The gold mineralisation is often associated with strongly altered country rocks proximal to the shear and fracture network that the hydrothermal fluids have passed through.

At Golden Delicious, the majority of the gold mineralisation is hosted within the monzonite and, to a lesser extent, the syenite and granite. Gold observed in thin section is typically spatially associated with pyrite stringers and as inclusions within altered feldspars or carbonate.

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Comminution

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Production

CommodityUnits202320222021202020192018201720162015
Gold koz  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe254289238228216
All production numbers are expressed as metal in doré.

Operational metrics

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Annual processing capacity  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe3.8 Mt
Tonnes processed  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe4.1 Mt4 Mt4 Mt4 Mt3.9 Mt
Total tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe2,706 kt

Production Costs

CommodityUnits2023202220212020201920182017
Total cash costs Gold USD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 1,014 / oz **   920 / oz **   919 / oz **  
All-in sustaining costs (sold) Gold USD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 1,246 / oz **   1,223 / oz **   1,203 / oz **  
All-in costs Gold USD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 1,266 / oz **  
** Net of By-Product.

Financials

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Capital expenditures M USD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 43   79   62  
Sustaining costs M USD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 43  
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Gross profit M USD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 35  
Operating Income M USD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 29  
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EBITDA M USD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 85  
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Heavy Mobile Equipment

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