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Meekatharra Gold Operations (MGO)

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 Location:
2 km E from Meekatharra, Western Australia, Australia

  Regional Office:
L 3 123 Adelaide Tce
West Perth
Western Australia, Australia
6004
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit / Underground
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Sub-level caving
  • Breast stoping with strike pillars
Processing
  • Gravity separation
  • Agitated tank (VAT) leaching
  • Inline Leach Reactor (ILR)
  • Carbon in leach (CIL)
  • Elution
  • Carbon adsorption
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning
  • Cyanide (reagent)
Mine Life4 years (as of Jan 1, 2019)
The MGO is a subset of the CMGP which covers the northern areas and uses the 1.6 – 1.8M tpa Bluebird Plant as a processing hub.

The key base-load for the MGO 10 Year Development Plan is the existing Paddy’s Flat Underground Mine. This is supplemented by further underground mining at the Jack Ryan, South Emu-Triton, Boomerang and Bluebird mines.

The underground mining at MGO is supplemented by open pits from the Paddy’s Flat, Meekatharra North, Yaloginda, and Nannine groups of open pit mines on a progressive basis over the 10 year plan.


Owners

Source: p. 15
CompanyInterestOwnershipInvestor's Info
Westgold Resources Ltd. 100 % Indirect
Big Bell Gold Operations Pty. Ltd. 100 % Direct

Deposit Type

  • Metamorphic hosted


Summary:

The CMGP is located in the Archaean Murchison Province, a granite-greenstone terrane in the northwest of the Yilgarn Craton. The three goldfields of Big Bell, Cuddingwarra and Day Dawn are made up of greenstone belts trending northnortheast are separated by granite-gneiss domes, with smaller granite plutons also present within or on the margins of the belts. The greenstone belts comprise tholeiitic and high-Mg basalts, komatiites and other ultramafic volcanics, mafic and ultramafic intrusives (dolerites, gabbros, dunites), felsic and intermediate volcanics and meta-sediments including banded iron formations.

Both Golden Crown and Great Fingall ore bodies are moderately dipping quartz veins with ore widths for Golden Crown of approximately 3m true width and 4.5m true width for Great Fingall.

The Big Bell deposit is located within a greenstone and sedimentary sequence within the Murchison Province of the Archaean Yilgarn cratonic block. The lithological contacts adjacent to the orebody generally strike at around 30° from magnetic north and dip 72° to the east. The orebody dip varies locally from 55° to 80°. Mineralisation is hosted within potassium feldspar-schist (KPSH), altered schist (ALSH) and biotite schist (BISH). Footwall excavations are located in amphibolite schist (AMPH), a basalt equivalent.

A graphitic shear structure is located in the footwall of the orebody, varying in thickness from 2cm to 45cm and located from 5m to 20m in the footwall of the orebody. A cordierite schist (CRSH) is the footwall marker unit to the deposit.

The Big Bell lode system (KPSH, ALSH, BISH) has been defined along strike for over 1,000m and to a depth of 1,430m. In plan view the lode system is lenticular in shape varying from five to eight meters in width at the extremities and up to fifty meters in the central area of the deposit.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Sub-level caving
  • Breast stoping with strike pillars


Summary:

The CMGP open pit program consists of conventional open pit methods, conventional mining equipment with selective grade control methods. The progressive extraction plan considers the Big Bell South, Shocker-1600 and Fender pits in the Big Bell project area, and the Yellow Taxi, South Fingall and Great Fingall pits in the Day Dawn area. Whittle Four-X optimisation software was used for the pit optimisation work. The pit optimisation work excluded inferred resources and all scheduling and productivity estimates were based on final and geotechnically cognisant mine designs.

Rib pillars and crown pillars are left for all stopes in order to avoid the need for backfill to all stope voids.

A longitudinal sub-level caving (SLC) method is used at Big Bell, using a top-down approach. The wider, central 350m section is mined from a central slot in the orebody out.

The sub-level interval is 25m and the orebody width varies from 10m to 40m, with twin ore drives developed in the central section where the orebody widths exceed 22m.

The CMGP open pit program consists of conventional open pit methods, conventional mining equipment with selective grade control methods. The progressive extraction plan considers the Big Bell South, Shocker-1600 and Fender pits in the Big Bell project area, and the Yellow Taxi, South Fingall and Great Fingall pits in the Day Dawn area. Whittle Four-X optimisation software was used for the pit optimisation work. The pit optimisation work excluded inferred resources and all scheduling and productivity estimates were based on final and geotechnically cognisant mine designs.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Gravity separation
  • Agitated tank (VAT) leaching
  • Inline Leach Reactor (ILR)
  • Carbon in leach (CIL)
  • Elution
  • Carbon adsorption
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning
  • Cyanide (reagent)

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Summary:

This area is centred upon the Bluebird processing hub which is a 1.6 - 1.8 million tonne per annum CIP plant and associated infrastructure. The northern part of the overall CMGP makes up the MGO covering the historic gold mining centre’s of Reedy’s, Nannine, Yaloginda, Paddy’s Flat and Meekatharra North.

The processing circuit is a simple CIL scenario and consists of:
• Delivery of ore to a Run-of-Mine (ROM) pad for direct tip to a primary crusher;
• Single stage jaw crushing of ROM ore;
• Two stage grinding via a primary SAG (semi autogenous grinding) mill and ball mill to P80 75 µm;
• Scrubbing and pre-leach thickening of historic tails;
• Carbon in Leach and Adsorption;
• Elution of Gold;
• Production of Gold Dore.

Recoveries & Grades:

CommodityParameter2019201820172016
Gold Recovery Rate, %  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required
Gold Head Grade, g/t 2.642.562.341.36
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Production:

CommodityUnits20202019201820172016
Gold oz  ......  Subscription required ^  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required101,33937,182
All production numbers are expressed as metal in doré. ^ Guidance / Forecast.
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics2019201820172016
Ore tonnes mined  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required1,096,663 t
Tonnes processed  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required925,069 t
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Reserves at June 30, 2019:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Proven 1,590 kt Gold 2.24 g/t 115 koz
Probable 3,420 kt Gold 3.09 g/t 340 koz
Proven & Probable 5,010 kt Gold 2.82 g/t 454 koz
Measured 2,666 kt Gold 2.86 g/t 245 koz
Indicated 25,795 kt Gold 1.82 g/t 1,509 koz
Inferred 26,492 kt Gold 1.79 g/t 1,523 koz
Total Resource 54,953 kt Gold 1.85 g/t 3,277 koz

Commodity Production Costs:

CommodityUnits20202019201820172016
All-in sustaining costs (AISC) Gold AUD  ......  Subscription required ^  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required 1,303 / oz 1,436 / oz
C1 cash costs Gold AUD  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required 1,133 / oz 1,255 / oz
All-in costs Gold AUD  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required 1,842 / oz 3,154 / oz
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Financials:

Units2019201820172016
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Heavy Mobile Equipment:

Mine Management:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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Annual Report 2017
Annual Report 2016
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