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Australia
Wiluna West C4 Operation

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 Location:
570 Km NE from Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia

  Address:
10 Kings Park Road
West Perth
Western Australia, Australia
6005
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Iron Ore
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start...
Mining operations continued and on 22 September 2021, following a significant and rapid decrease in the iron ore price, GWR halted mining operations temporarily to assess the market with mining re-commencing in January 2022.

In July 2022 the Group signed a Binding Term Sheet to grant the mining rights to C4 to Gold Valley Iron Ore Pty Ltd.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Gold Valley Iron Ore Pty Ltd 100 % Indirect
On 20 July 2022 GWR announced that it had entered into a Binding Term Sheet to grant Mining Rights for its C4 Iron deposit and transfer its residual rights in relation to the JWD Iron deposit for a total consideration of $30,000,000 plus potential royalties to Gold Valley Iron Ore Pty Ltd (“GV”).

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Deposit Type

  • Banded iron formation


Summary:

The Wiluna West project covers a 25 km strike length over the Joyners Find Greenstone Belt, near the northern margin of the Yilgarn Craton. The Joyners Find Greenstone Belt is a narrow (5 km to 10 km) north-south striking greenstone belt comprising low ridges of BIF (in the central and eastern portion) intercalated with mafic and ultramafic schists with minor chert and clastic sediment horizons. The Joyners Find Greenstone Belt strikes north and dips steeply to the west. Folds developed during the D2 deformation event are observed in the BIF ridges as tight to isoclinal folds oriented north-south with west dipping axial planes. The BIF ridges are variably deformed and intensely folded.

Two regional dextral shear zones are recognised: the Joyner’s Find Shear Zone (JFSZ) strikes to the north through the centre of the belt and is parallel to the lithological strike; and the Brilliant Shear Zone (BSZ) which is oriented north-northwest.

There are three main Banded Iron Formation (BIF) units which form ridges within the project area (Units A, B and C). High grade DSO hematite mineralisation occurs within units B and C with grade occurrences of up to 69% Fe. Iron mineralisation occurs within BIFs surrounded by inter-bedded mafic and ultramafic schist units. The two main ridges show distinctive mineralisation styles with B ridge showing a much lower proportion of remnant bedding and generally a significantly higher portion of haematite especially in the top 20 m ........


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

The deposit is outcropping and mining of the C4 pit commenced in December 2020.

The Stage 1 pit was extracted 1Mt of high-grade and high quality (low impurities) DSO product with a low strip ratio of 1:1.25.

Additional to this there is significant opportunity to delineate further pods of surface ore and extend the project life from not just C4, but other shallow deposits at the WWIOP adjacent to C4.

Mining in the Stage 1 pit was completed in late March and mining is now focused on the Stage 2 pit cutback, moving to two shifts from the first of April 2022. Increased quantities of ore are expected in the pit and only two benches remain to be mined before the high-grade iron ore is exposed which is up to 120 m wide. Mining of this ore will underpin an increase in the number of shipments to two per month.

GWR halted mining operations temporarily to assess the market with mining re-commencing in January 2022.


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Reserves at July 8, 2011:
The Mineral Resources as at 30th June 2022 at Wiluna West C4 are unchanged from July 08, 2011.
C4 DSO hematite mineral Resource reported above a 50% Fe cut off.

CategoryTonnage CommodityGrade
Indicated 18.5 Mt Iron (hematite) 61.17 %
Inferred 3.1 Mt Iron (hematite) 58 %
Total Resource 21.6 Mt Iron (hematite) 60.72 %

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Annual Report 2022
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