Overview
Stage | Production |
Mine Type | Open Pit & Underground |
Commodities |
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Mining Method |
- Truck & Shovel / Loader
- Open stoping
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Production Start | ...  |
Mine Life | 6 years (as of Jan 1, 2022) |
The Duketon South Operations (‘DSO’) includes the Garden Well, Rosemont, Erlistoun, Tooheys Well, Baneygo and other satellite projects in proximity to the Garden Well and Rosemont processing plants. |
Source:
p. 48
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Deposit Type
- Orogenic
- Breccia pipe / Stockwork
- Vein / narrow vein
Summary:
Garden Well.
Garden Well is located on the eastern limb of the Erlistoun syncline of the Duketon Greenstone Belt. The gold of the Garden Well Deposit occurs as supergene mineralisation within upper Archaean regolith and as hypogene mineralisation in fresh rock. No significant amounts of gold occur in the transported quaternary clay sequence.
The gold is associated with intensely sheared and folded ultramafic and shale units that have been hydrothermally altered to a silica- carbonate-fuchsite-chlorite-pyrite-arsenopyrite assemblage, and underlying chert units.
The gold mineralisation trends roughly north- south over a distance of 2,100m and dips 50º to 60º east which is sub-parallel to the ultramafic-sediment contact.
Rosemont.
Rosemont gold deposit is hosted in a quartz dolerite zone of a dolerite sill intruding ultramafic and argillaceous sedimentary units of the western limb of the Erlistoun Syncline in the Duketon Greenstone Belt.
Gold mineralisation is associated with brittle fracturing and quartz albite sericite carbonate sulphide alteration within the quartz dolerite. Most gold occurs below the weathered profile in saprock and fresh rock with the upper saprolite being leached of gold.
The mineralisation trends NNW over a strike length of 4.9km and dips steeply to the east and west, varying along strike.
Erlistoun.
Erlistoun is an Archaean orogenic gold deposit hosted in narrow quartz vei ........

Mining Methods
- Truck & Shovel / Loader
- Open stoping
Summary:
The mining method assumed in the Ore Reserve study is the same as that currently employed at the Rosemont, Garden Well and Erlistoun Gold Mines, which utilises drill and blast, excavator and truck open pit mining.
The Rosemont operations include Rosemont open pit and underground mine, as well as Baneygo open pit. The Rosemont and associated surface deposits are mined using conventional open pit mining truck and shovel methods. The Rosemont underground produces approximately 600Ktpa and is mined using mechanised open stoping.
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Reserves at December 31, 2021:
Resources are reported at cut-off grades of 0.4 g/t Au for open-pit and Garden Well Underground reported at an Economic cutoff of 1.8g/t, Rosemont Underground reported at an economic cutoff of 2.0g/t.
Reserves are reported at cut-off grades not less than 0.5 g/t Au for open-pit and 2.0 g/t Au for underground, that vary according to oxidation and lithology domains.
Category | Tonnage | Commodity | Grade | Contained Metal |
Proven
|
12 Mt
|
Gold
|
0.5 g/t
|
210 koz
|
Probable
|
24 Mt
|
Gold
|
1.3 g/t
|
1,020 koz
|
Proven & Probable
|
36 Mt
|
Gold
|
1 g/t
|
1,230 koz
|
Measured
|
18 Mt
|
Gold
|
0.9 g/t
|
510 koz
|
Indicated
|
83 Mt
|
Gold
|
1.1 g/t
|
2,840 koz
|
Inferred
|
11 Mt
|
Gold
|
1.4 g/t
|
490 koz
|
Total Resource
|
112 Mt
|
Gold
|
1.1 g/t
|
3,850 koz
|
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