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Widgiemooltha Mine

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Summary

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusCare and Maintenance
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotWidgiemooltha Gold Project is located at the northern end of the Widgiemooltha Dome, surrounded by several prolific gold camps including St Ives, Higginsville, Chalice and Wattle Dam.

A Feasibility Study completed in 2018 confirmed the economic viability of a low capital start up gold mining operation based on the extraction of shallow reserves across 10 open pits.

Gold production commenced in July 2018 under an ore tolling agreement and was ceased in line with operating plans in December 2019.

Owners

SourceSource
CompanyInterestOwnership
Wyloo Metals Pty Ltd 100 % Indirect
Widgiemooltha is 100% owned by Mincor.

On July 25, 2023, Mincor Resources NL was removed from the Official List under Listing Rule 17.14, following the compulsory acquisition of its remaining securities by Wyloo Consolidated Investments Pty Ltd.

Wyloo Consolidated is wholly owned within the Wyloo Group, which in turn is wholly owned within the Tattarang Group.

Deposit type

  • Vein / narrow vein

Summary:

The Widgiemooltha mineralisation is controlled by north-northwest trending structures and mainly hosted within basaltic rocks. Alteration assemblages consist of biotite-albite-carbonate and contain finely disseminated sulphides, mostly pyrite. The veining is dominantly quartz-carbonate with minor pyrite. Small aplite dykes, 1 m to 10 m thick, occur at Bass and Hronsky, and minor cherty-pyritic sediments and pegmatitic dykes at Flinders.

Two ore morphologies can be identified at North Widgiemooltha, namely the steeply-dipping tabular lodes such as Bass and Hronsky, and the stacked shallow-dipping reef complexes hosting Flinders, Darlek and to a lesser extent West Oliver.

There is only thin transported overburden in local areas (<3 m). The degree of weathering in the area varies with saprolite (100% weathered sulphides) from 0 to 15 m below the surface, while saprock (a mixture of weathered and unweathered sulphides) occurs down to 50 m depth.

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Heavy Mobile Equipment

Fleet data has not been reported.

Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Milling equipment has not been reported.

Processing

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Commodity Production

FY 2020 (July 1, 2019 - June 31, 2020): Production was ceased in line with operating plans in December 2019.
CommodityUnits20202019LOM (Projected)
Gold oz  ....  Subscribe22,66771,700
All production numbers are expressed as payable metal.

Operational metrics

Metrics20202019
Ore tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe443,706 t
Tonnes milled  ....  Subscribe406,891 t

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Mine Financials

Units20202019
Revenue M AUD  ....  Subscribe 40.5  

Personnel

Mine Management

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