Paddington Gold Operations comprises of the following key deposits: Enterprise, Janet Ivy, Bullant, Homestead, Tuart and Federal.

Federal open cut and underground.
The Federal deposit is located 12 km northeast of the Paddington Mill, situated within the Golden Cities camp area.

Mineralisation is hosted by granitoid lithologies and is controlled by a northwest trending fault zone. Gold mineralisation is associated with pyritic vein quartz, with vein density the dominant control on gold grade. Several plunging high-grade lodes within the broader lower grade mineralised envelope are interpreted, and future work will review the potential to extend these lodes.

Enterprise open pit and underground.
The Enterprise deposit is hosted by units of the Enterprise dolerite sill and comprises a breccia cap with underlying quartz stock work. Eight layers have been identified within the sill and identified as Unit 1 to Unit 8 (from depth to surface).

Gold mineralisation is characterised by multiple fault orientations, with the major ore envelope controlled by the intersection of a series of steep trending faults. High-grade gold zones are concentrated in steeply plunging linear zones that coincide with these brittle- ductile faults, and large areas of relatively lower grade mineralisation fill the gaps between the faults.

Homestead Underground.
The Homestead orebody comprises several mineralised high-grade veins (VN01, ........

The largest producing mines in the Paddington tenement package include the Enterprise open pit, Homestead underground and Bullant underground mines:
- Enterprise mine (Ora Banda Project) currently supplies the majority of the ore processed at the Paddington Mill and is supplemented by the small Wattlebird open pit mine, which commenced mining in mid-2014.
- Homestead underground mine (Mount Pleasant Project) includes the Black Flag West Vein which has been material in boosting mine grade and volume.
- Bullant underground mine, acquired through Norton’s takeover of KMC in April 2013.

Enterprise
There is a conceptual Stage 4 pit, based on a higher gold price, and a conceptual underground project. The orebody is a south plunging (30° to 225°) brittle stock work in dolerite, fault bound to the north and south east-west trending faults. There is little oxide development and the mineralisation is bound at its upper surface by a very hard silicified sedimentary cap, which has impeded stripping in this area and precludes gravity-caving methods for any underground mine.

The geometry of the deposit results in extensive stripping before the orebody is intersected and an uneven ore production chedule.

The pit runs two fleets of trucks, a fleet of CAT793’s serviced by an EX3600 for waste stripping and a fleet of CAT 777’s serviced by an EX1900 for production.

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