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White Foil and Cutters Ridge Mine

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Gold
  • Silver
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotWhite Foil and Cutters Ridge open pits mine are part of Mungari Gold Operations.

Open pit ore mining decreased in 2023 as the final cut was extracted from Cutters Ridge.
Related AssetMungari Operation

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Evolution Mining Ltd. 100 % Indirect
Evolution Mining Mungari Pty Ltd. (operator) 100 % Direct
Evolution Mining Ltd 100% owns Mungari Gold Operations.

Evolution Mining (Mungari) Pty Ltd, a wholly owned of Evolution Mining, operates the Mungari Gold Operations.

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Deposit type

  • Breccia pipe / Stockwork
  • Vein / narrow vein

Summary:

Mineralisation at White Foil is hosted within a brittle quartz gabbro unit. The gold is associated with quartz stockworks. Structural studies confirms the presence of two main vein sets at White Foil with a dominant moderately NNW dipping set (51º/346º dip and dip direction) and a secondary SSE dipping set (56º/174º dip and dip direction). An identifiable systematic bias associated with drilling direction has not been established. The main strike to the gabbro unit is NNW-SSE and it plunges steeply towards the NNE. The predominant drill direction was to the SE.

The White Foil gold deposit is a quartz stockwork hosted in a gabbro. The gabbro is differentiated broadly into a quartz-rich phase in the west. This quartz gabbro unit is the most hydrothermally altered unit and contains the bulk of the gold mineralisation. The White Foil deposit is bounded to the west by hangingwall volcaniclastic rocks. To the east mineralisation becomes irregular and uneconomic in the more melanocratic phase of gabbro. Mineralisation is controlled by sheeted systems of stockwork veining, which has imparted strong alteration and sulphidation to the quartz gabbro.

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Milling equipment has not been reported.

Processing

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Production

CommodityUnits202020192018
Gold koz  ....  Subscribe8526
All production numbers are expressed as metal in ore.

Operational metrics

Metrics2022202120202019201820172016
Ore tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe1,640 kt501 kt1,044 kt1,121 kt
Waste  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe5,436 kt3,086 kt
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Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

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