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Red October Mine

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 Location:
65 km S from Laverton, Western Australia, Australia

  Regional Office:
Suite 11 139 Newcastle Street
PO Box 376, Northbridge WA 6865
Perth
Western Australia, Australia
6000
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Longhole open stoping
Processing
  • Gravity separation
  • Agitated tank (VAT) leaching
  • Carbon in leach (CIL)
  • Cyanide (reagent)
First underground ore was trucked in February 2012 and total production to March 2017 is 1.2Mt at 5.9g/t for 229koz. During June 2017, Red October was placed on care and maintenance.

18th February 2019 - Matsa Commences Mining at Red October Gold Project.
Latest NewsAngloGold Ashanti to purchase ore from Matsa restart project     May 21, 2019


Owners & OPERATOR

Source: p. 32
CompanyInterestOwnership
Matsa Resources Ltd. 100 % Indirect
Red October Gold Pty Ltd. (operator) 100 % Direct
Red October Gold Pty Ltd (A wholly owned subsidiary of Matsa Resources Limited) purchased Red October in March 2018.

Deposit Type

  • Breccia pipe / Stockwork
  • Vein / narrow vein


Summary:

Red October gold mine is situated within an Archaean greenstone belt of the Laverton Tectonic Zone. The stratigraphic sequence consists of footwall tholeiitic basalts, mineralised shale (containing ductile textures defined by pyrite mineralisation) and a hangingwall dominated by ultramafic flows interbedded with high-Mg basalts. Prehnite pumpellyite facies are evident within both the tholeiitic basalts and komatiite flows. Sulphide mineralisation is hypothesised to have been caused from interaction with an auriferous quartz vein, which has caused the intense pyrite-defined ductile textures of the shale in the upper levels. The fluid is believed to have been sourced from the intruding granitoid to the south of the deposit.

Mineralization at Red October occurs over 900m along strike and to a depth of 700m. Mineralization is hosted in vertical quartz breccia zones as well as where they intersect the primary host of graphitic black shales sitting on a Mafic/ultramafic contact. Inside the primary ore zone ore is seen as nuggetty visible gold and moving away from these zones mineralization is patchy with continuity along strike of between 5-20m and sub mineralization outside zones of silica flooding/brecciation.


Mining Methods

  • Longhole open stoping


Summary:

Mining of the Red October underground mines ceased during FY2017.

No assumptions have been made as to possible mining methods or dilution factors due to the variable nature of the dip and thickness of the ore body. Current mining methods employed at Red October utilize both air legging and long hole production rigs and is determined by ore body dimensions. Dilution is calculated using a low grade wireframe encompassing the ore domains which typically grades at 0.01g/t. "


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Gravity separation
  • Agitated tank (VAT) leaching
  • Carbon in leach (CIL)
  • Cyanide (reagent)

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Summary:

Ore processing will be via an external processing facility. Terms for ore purchase or toll treatment are underway.

Saracen utilised an 84% average metallurgy recovery for Red October ore to the Carosue Dam processing plant for mine planning assumptions.

The Carosue Dam Process Plant is a CIL cyanide leach plant incorporating a gravity circuit which is appropriate for the extraction of gold from free milling gold ores.

Recoveries & Grades:

CommodityParameter201920172016
Gold Head Grade, g/t 1.813.555.1

Production:

CommodityUnits201920172016
Gold oz  ......  Subscription required13,04455,700
All production numbers are expressed as metal in ore.
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics201920172016
Ore tonnes mined  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required340,000 t
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Reserves at June 30, 2019:

CategoryOreTypeTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Indicated Total 340,000 t Gold 4.5 g/t 49,000 oz
Inferred Total 106,000 t Gold 14.7 g/t 50,000 oz


Heavy Mobile Equipment as of February 18, 2019:
HME TypeModelQuantity
Drill jumbo (single boom) ....................... Subscription required 1
Drill jumbo (single boom) ....................... Subscription required 1
Loader ....................... Subscription required 2
Loader ....................... Subscription required 1
Truck (dump) ....................... Subscription required 1
Underground truck ....................... Subscription required 1
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Mine Management:

Job TitleNameRef. Date
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
................................... Subscription required 2019
................................... Subscription required 2019
................................... Subscription required 2018
Annual Report 2017
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2017
Annual Report 2016
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News:

NewsDate
AngloGold Ashanti to purchase ore from Matsa restart project May 21, 2019

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