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Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotIn 2023, Bronzewing operations have been included in the Thunderbox operating segment. Bronzewing operations include the Bronzewing and Orelia open pits.

Ore from the Orelia pit at Bronzewing Operations was processed for the first time during Q4 2023.

The Bronzewing processing plant is currently on care and maintenance.
Related AssetThunderbox & Bronzewing Operation

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Northern Star Resources Ltd. 100 % Indirect
The Bronzewing Project`s tenements are variously registered (via Northern Star or wholly owned subsidiaries), with Northern Star Resources Limited being the 100% registered owner.

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Deposit type

  • Hydrothermal
  • Breccia pipe / Stockwork
  • Vein / narrow vein

Summary:

Orelia is Archean gold mineralized deposit that is part of the Yandal Greenstone belt.

The stratigraphy dips approximately 60 degrees towards the west and strikes north south. The oldest and the most western unit is the ultramafic sequence, towards the east, the komatiite unit has a sharp contact with a 2-5m massive sulphide/breccia unit. This contact is the Calista shear. The stratigraphic sequence east of the Calista shear and massive sulphide unit consists of a series of basaltic units. This includes massive and pillowed tholeiitic basalt, basaltic lithic lapilli tuff, and interflow sedimentary rocks. In the middle of this sequence lies the Orelia dolerite that has been classified as an ophitic basalt. Further towards the east the next unit is a felsic zone dominated by sandstones, siltstones and mudstones with intercalations poorly sorted volcaniclastics tuffs of dacitic composition. This felsic unit is intruded by 2 dolerites Cumberland in the east and Lotus in the west. The whole Orelia stratigraphy is intruded by a suite of late intermediate dioritic to lamprophyre dykes ranging from 0.5m to 2-3m in width. The sequence appears to be upright with the older Ultramafic member thrusted over the basaltic and felsic units.

The main host rocks of mineralisation at Orelia-Cockburn are deformed and altered tholeiitic basalts, and intermediate to felsic volcaniclastic rocks. It appears that the structures in the main mineralised corridors exploit the rheological contacts between the different units’ geological units.

There are three main mineralised zones within the Archaean sequence, Orelia, Cumberland, and Calista.

Calista has two styles of mineralisation one shear hosted within the massive sulphides breccia unit in the contact between the ultramafic unit and the basalt and a stockwork of quartz-carbonate-sulphide veins within the basalt.

Orelia mineralisation consist mainly in a stockwork of quartz-carbonate-sulphide veins along the contacts of the Orelia dolerite and interflow sediment units that form a cigar/pipe like ore shoots.

Cumberland has two styles of mineralisation: the narrow high-grade often presenting boudinage and inch and swell withe quartz veins with minor sulphides and low grade stockworks of quartz and quartz-carbonate veins related to the main veins.

Dimensions
The Orelia Mineral Resource has an overall north-south strike, the mineralised corridor length is approximately 2,000m. The overall mineralised width of Orelia ranges between 100m and 400m, the majority is approximately 200m wide.

Mineralized zones are variable with true width ranging from 0.5m to 20m. They are extensive along strike and down dip, raging 100m up to 1000m along strike in case of the Cumberland mineralisation. The down dip extends range from 50m to 300m. Some of the lode present cigar like shapes.

Depth from surface is form 100m up to 500m approximately as the mineralisation plunges 30 degrees towards the south. The mineralised envelope has been extended down dip and long strike for targeting purposes any mineralisation modelled beyond the drilling coverage has not been included in the resource classification or reporting.

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Production

CommodityUnitsAvg. Annual (Projected)LOM (Projected)
Gold oz 95,000379
All production numbers are expressed as metal in doré.

Operational metrics

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Production Costs

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