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Renison Mine

Location: 13 km NE from Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia

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Unit 202, Level 2 77 South Perth Esplanade
South Perth
Western Australia, Australia
6151

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Summary

Mine TypeUnderground
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Tin
  • Copper
Mining Method
  • Bench stoping
  • Open stoping
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SnapshotRenison is one of the world’s largest operating underground tin mines and Australia’s largest primary tin producer.

The ore mined from the high-grade Area 5 and Leatherwood ore bodies. Continued investment in near mine exploration has the potential to further increase the mine life, especially within the Ringrose area.

Renison Tailings Retreatment Project (Rentails) is a tailings retreatment initiative at the Renison tin mine in Tasmania, aiming to extract tin and copper from historic tailings using new processing facilities. The project is in the regulatory approval stage, with final approval expected in late 2026.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Metals X Ltd. 50 % Indirect
YT Parksong Australia Holding Pty Ltd 50 % Indirect
Bluestone Mines Tasmania Joint Venture Pty Ltd. (operator) 100 % Direct
Metals X Ltd. has 50% interest in the Bluestone Mines Tasmania Joint Venture (BMTJV), which owns and operates the Renison Tin Mine.

During 2025 year, Metals X acquired a 3.11% interest in Hong Kong-listed Greentech Technology International Limited (Greentech). This investment provides additional indirect exposure to Greentech’s 82% interest in YT Parksong Australia Holdings Pty Ltd, which in turn owns 50% of the BMTJV.

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Deposit type

  • Skarn
  • Carbonate replacement
  • Tailings

Summary:

Renison is one of the world’s largest operating underground tin mines and Australia’s largest primary tin producer. Renison is the largest of three major Skarn, carbonate replacement, pyrrhotite-cassiterite deposits within western Tasmania. The Renison Mine area is situated in the Dundas Trough, a province underlain by a thick sequence of Neoproterozoic-Cambrian siliciclastic and volcaniclastic rocks.

The Renison deposit is hosted by a thick late Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic sedimentary and volcanic sequences of the Success Creek Group and Crimson Creek Formation which were deposited within the Dundas Trough between two Neoproterozoic blocks; the Tyennan and Rocky Cape massifs to the east and west respectively.

The Renison deposit is hosted by supratidal to intertidal dolomitic and siliciclastic sediments of the Renison Mine Sequence which comprises the upper ~80m of the Success Creek Group and the lower ~60m of the overlying Crimson Creek Formation. The Renison Mine Sequence ranges from 50 to 200m in thickness, but is in general around 140m, with individual cherts and carbonates being from 10 to 20m thick.

The primary carbonates are well bedded manganiferous dolomite or pistomesite. At Renison there are three shallow-dipping dolomite horizons which host replacement mineralisation.

The Renison Mine Sequence has been intruded by the Devonian Pine Hill Granite which is interpreted to have likely been the source of the hydrothermal fluids responsible for carbonate replacement tin mineralisation.

The deposit occurs on the NE limb of the broad, SE plunging, Renison Bell Anticline, which constitutes a horst block bounded to the NE by the NW-SE trending, 60 to 85°NE dipping Federal-Bassett Fault, to the SW by the subparallel Blow Fault and to the south by the east-west striking Argent fault. The horst is ~700m to 1km wide and 3km long.

Mineralisation at Renison occurs in three main forms:
• Stratabound massive sulphide orebodies;
• Strata-fault massive sulphide orebodies;
• fault enclosed massive sulphides and vein clusters.

Mineralisation comprises tin, almost solely as fine grained cassiterite, commonly associated with significant sulphide development dominated by 65-70% pyrrhotite and variable arsenopyrite and pyrite. Chalcopyrite is a widespread trace mineral while galena, sphalerite and stannite are encountered sporadically.

Mineralisation at Ringrose is located about 750 metres south of existing development and occurs over approximately 250 metres down dip and 300 metres strike length. High-grade mineralisation is interpreted to be associated with an east-west, south-dipping structure named Acacia. Mineralisation remains open in all directions.

Renison has currently been mined over a strike length of >1,950m, a lateral extent of >1,250m and a depth of over 1,200m.

The Rentails Mineral Resource is contained within three Tailing Storage Facilities (TSF’s) that have been built up from the processing of tin ore at the Renison Bell mine over the period 1968 to 2013. Rentails is deposited in three adjacent TSFs which have and aggregate length of approximately 1.8km and a width at the widest point of circa 1km. Maximum depth is in excess of 20m.

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Water usage

Parameter2024202320222021
Fresh water 2,377 ML2,376 ML2,376 ML2,376 ML
Water use efficiency 119 kL/t139 kL/t154 kL/t158 kL/t

Commodity Production

Metals X Limited changed its financial year end from 30 June to 31 December. Production results for 2024 are expressed for the period from January 1 to December 31, 2024.
CommodityUnits202520242023202220212020201920182017
Tin t  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe7,1246,7407,065
All production numbers are expressed as metal in concentrate.

Operational metrics

Metrics202520242023202220212020201920182017
Annual processing capacity  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe
Ore tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe797,980 t802,348 t739,367 t
Tonnes processed  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe745,184 t732,484 t725,629 t

Production Costs

CommodityUnits202520242023202220212020201920182017
All-in sustaining costs (AISC) Tin AUD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 17,417 / t   16,559 / t   18,561 / t  
C1 cash costs Tin AUD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 14,391 / t   11,814 / t   11,838 / t  
All-in costs Tin AUD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 18,668 / t   21,034 / t  

Mine Financials

Units202520242023202220212020201920182017
Sustaining costs M AUD  ....  Subscribe 16.1   22  
Capital expenditures M AUD  ....  Subscribe 18.1   42.7   23  
Revenue M AUD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 170.1   163.9   168.7  
Gross profit M AUD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 13.4  
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