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Mount Garnet Mine

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Overview

Mine TypeUnderground
StatusCare and Maintenance
Commodities
  • Zinc
  • Lead
  • Copper
  • Gold
  • Silver
Mining Method
  • Longhole open stoping
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SnapshotIn a tumultuous turn of events, Queensland-based mining company Aurora Metals has collapsed, leaving a trail of debts totaling approximately $170 million. KordaMentha, the appointed administrator, is currently working through Aurora Metals' financial records.

Aurora Metals' collapse came after WA mining services company Emeco (ASX:EHL) took legal action to protect its interests. The company had provided ongoing care and maintenance services to one of Aurora's mothballed mines in Chillagoe, North Queensland.

The company's assets, which include underground mines such as King Vol and Mungana, as well as processing plants at Mt Garnet and Chillagoe, are currently under care and maintenance.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Aurora Metals Ltd. (operator) 100 % Indirect
The Aurora Metals' assets, which include underground mines such as King Vol and Mungana, as well as processing plants at Mt Garnet and Chillagoe.

Grant Thornton has announced that the newly appointed receivers and managers of Aurora Metals have announced the sale of the base metals company and its assets.

Deposit type

  • Skarn

Summary:

The Mt Garnet base metal mineralisation occurs in a garnet-pyroxene-amphibole skarn-altered, northerly-trending, fossiliferous limestone and limey siltstone unit that hosts sphalerite-rich mineralisation. The skarn zone dips sub-vertically, is typically 30 metres to 60 metres wide, and extends beyond 550 metres below surface, which is the current limit of drill investigations.

High-grade massive and semi-massive sphalerite-rich mineralisation (notionally >10% Zn) is largely confined to two distinct, sub-parallel, shallow to moderately north-plunging “shoots”, termed the South Shoot and the North Shoot.

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Comminution

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Processing

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Production

Since 2018 financial year (which started on July 1, 2017), the Consolidated Tin Mines Ltd. is provided combined data for Dry River South and Mount Garnet mines. Mining operations recommenced at the Mount Garnet mine in July 2017 and at the Dry River South - in May 2018.
CommodityProductUnits20202019201820162015
Lead Metal in concentrate M lbs  ....  Subscribe3.2*
Copper Metal in concentrate M lbs  ....  Subscribe2.1*0.5*
Zinc Concentrate kt 37*46*
Lead Concentrate kt 2.4*10*
Copper Concentrate kt 4.4*7.6*

Operational metrics

Metrics20202019201820162015
Tonnes processed  ....  Subscribe189,069 t111,348 t
Annual ore mining rate  ....  Subscribe200 kt
Ore tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe357,489 t103,950 t

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Heavy Mobile Equipment

Fleet data has not been reported.

Personnel

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