Overview
| Status | Care and Maintenance |
| Mine Type | Open Pit |
| Commodities |
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| Mining Method |
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The year has seen significant progress in the Company’s return to being a base metals producer with the recommencement of mining operations at the Mount Garnet and Surveyor Mines and processing operations at the Mount Garnet processing plant |
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Subsidiary company details and consolidation information:Surveyor Mining Pty Ltd - Ownership interest - 100%
Summary:
• Occur within metapelites and metarhyolite, of the Balcooma Metavolcanics
• Two lenses are lead/zinc rich and one is copper rich
• Lens like bodies
• Recent age dating suggests the bodies formed in the Early Ordovician (~480Ma)
• Textures suggest the deposit is a deformed and metamorphosed volcanogenic massive sulphide similar to those in the Seventy Mile range Group.
• Mineralisation is Volcanic Hosted Massive Sulphide type typical of deposits in a back-arc setting “Kuroko type”.
Summary:
Mining from the Surveyor and site continued as 24/7 operations with ore trucked from the Surveyor Mine to the Mt Garnet concentrator for processing.
Production:
| Commodity | Units | 2016 | 2015 |
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Zinc
|
wmt
| ......  * | 50,523 * |
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Lead
|
wmt
| ...... * | ...... * |
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Copper
|
wmt
| ...... * | ...... * |
Operational Metrics:
| Metrics | 2016 | 2015 |
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Ore tonnes mined
| 70,898 t | 344,325 t |
Financials:
| | Units | 2019 |
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Capital expenditures (planned)
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M AUD
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