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Hellyer Mine

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 Location:
66 km SW from Burnie, Tasmania, Australia

  Regional Office:
PO Box 60 Ridgley
Tasmania, Australia
7321
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeTailings
Commodities
  • Lead
  • Zinc
  • Silver
  • Gold
  • Copper
  • Pyrite
Mining Method
  • Dredging
Production Start...
Mine Life7.8 years (as of Jan 1, 2022)
Hellyer Gold Mines started retreatment of tailings from the historic main tailings storage facility in October 2018.

On February 2022, EnviroGold Global has executed a binding definitive agreement with Hellyer Gold Mines Pty Ltd to reprocess the tailings at its Hellyer Gold Mine in Tasmania, Australia.

The EnviroGold operations at Hellyer will be undertaken in two stages. The first stage operation is designed to treat 500 tonnes per day (tpd), with the second stage expansion designed to treat 3,500 tpd.

Implementation of Stage 1 Commercial processing in 2023.

No financial and production data documents were published during the period of formal Administration.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
NQ Minerals Plc. 100 % Indirect
The Hellyer Project is in north-western Tasmania. The current mining tenure is Combined Mining Lease CML103M/1987 covering an area of 1,695 hectares held by Hellyer Gold Mines Pty Ltd. (HGM).

The HGM parent company, NQ Minerals Plc, was placed into Administration on 9 August 2021 by a unanimous vote of the Directors of the Company. Munich Partners of Sydney Australia successfully purchased Keen Pacific (the HGM holding company) out of Administration.

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Deposit Type

  • Tailings


Summary:

Deposit Types The original Hellyer massive sulfide deposit has been interpreted by most previous workers as a classic, seafloor, mound-style, VHMS deposit, developed in a similar manner to the classic Kuroko deposit (Gemmell and Large, 1992; Large, 1992; McArthur, 1996). Gemmell and Large (1992) described the hydrothermal alteration zonation pattern centred around the stringer zone and interpreted the metal zonation of the deposit to delineate the main feeder zones. McArthur (1996) examined the metal content, mineralogy, macroscopic and microscopic textures, and mineral trace element composition of the massive sulfide deposit in detail and supported the formation of the sulfide mound by deposition of sulfides at or near the seafloor with in-situ recrystallisation, intra-mound veining, upward deposition, and thermal retraction. This mound building and zone refining process, described by Eldridge et al. (1983), is responsible for the Cu-rich base of the deposit with an upward and outward increase in Zn and Pb content. Mineralisation is comprised predominantly of pyrite and sphalerite, with lesser galena and arsenopyrite. The deposit under review is a tailings dam, comprised of sediments pumped into a natural depression within a compacted earth-fill dam. The tailings sediments were sourced from the adjacent Hellyer Mine processing facility which processed polymetallic ore sourced mainly from the Hellyer underground mine plus some from the Fossey mine and the Que River mine. T ........


Mining Methods

  • Dredging


Summary:

The Hellyer Gold Mines (HGM) mining method employs cutter suction dredges to excavate tailings material and transport it to shore via a floating pipeline. The dredged material is delivered to surge tanks via trommel screens to remove debris in the form of oversize rocks and timber and other vegetable matter. From these surge tanks the material is pumped via 300 mm diameter high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipelines to the processing plant. The original “Seabird III” 300kW dredge with Warman10/8 main pump (10 inch / 250mm inlet, 8 inch / 200mm discharge) has nominal operating depth of up to 19 metres, with a nominal operating capacity of 180tph. The Seabird III has operated since October 2018 and is currently feeding 110 tonnes per hour to the processing plant. To maintain a feed rate of 100,000 tpm and more, given the potential of greater throughput in the processing plant following alterations to the flotation circuit, a second dredge has been commissioned in early 2022. This second unit should ensure steady feed rates with less interruptions for maintenance and unforeseen downtime events, the second dredge unit permits blending of feed material to the process plant. The dredge was designed for a excavation depth of 10.4m with a submerged 10/8 Warman pump fitted on the ladder and the revolving cutter head on the end of the ladder. This dredge is equipped with a removable ladder extension piece, allowing a maximum digging depth of 16m below water, though it is reported tha ........


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Processing

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Production:
Following modifications to the process plant and a cost benefit analysis to lift production rates, only two final products are now made and sold: lead concentrate and zinc concentrate.

CommodityProductUnits202020192018
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Operational Metrics:

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Reserves at September 30, 2022:

CategoryOreTypeTonnage CommodityGrade
Inferred Tailings 9.22 Mt Lead 1.45 %
Inferred Tailings 9.22 Mt Zinc 1.04 %
Inferred Tailings 9.22 Mt Silver 59 g/t
Inferred Tailings 9.22 Mt Gold 2.3 g/t
Inferred Tailings 9.22 Mt Copper 0.19 %

Financials:

Units202020192018
Capital expenditures M GBP 11.9  
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Gross profit M  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required -2  GBP



Heavy Mobile Equipment as of November 11, 2020:
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Mine Management:

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Staff:

ContractorsYear
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Corporate Presentation 2022
Technical Report 2022
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Environmental Assessment 2018
Financial Review 2018
Other 2018
Press Release 2018
Environmental Assessment 2017
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