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Australia
Norton Operation

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 Location:
30 km N from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia

  Address:
Paddington Site Menzies Highway PO Box 1653
Kalgoorlie
Western Australia, Australia
6430
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit & Underground
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Longhole stoping
  • Avoca
  • Cemented backfill
  • Paste backfill
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Mine Life2032
Norton Operation comprises Paddington mining operation and Binduli North gold mine heap leach project.

Binduli North gold mine heap leach project completed construction and commenced production in September 2022.

Refractory gold ore project is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2023.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Norton Gold Fields Ltd. (operator) 100 % Direct
Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd 100 % Indirect
The Paddington is 100% owned and operated by Norton Gold Fields Limited.

Norton Gold Fields Pty Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Zijin Mining Group.

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Deposit Type

  • Porphyry
  • Breccia pipe / Stockwork
  • Vein / narrow vein


Summary:

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, ........


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Longhole stoping
  • Avoca
  • Cemented backfill
  • Paste backfill


Summary:

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.

Byrnecut secured a three year underground mining contract with ........


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Processing

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Production:

CommodityUnits2023202220212020201920182017
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All production numbers are expressed as metal in doré. ^ Guidance / Forecast.
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics2021201920182017
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Annual processing capacity  ......  Subscription required3.73 Mt3.73 Mt
Tonnes processed  ......  Subscription required3,640,163 t
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Reserves at December 31, 2022:
Cut-off grades: Open-pit mining 0.3-0.7g/t; Underground mining: 1.0-3.0g/t.

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Proven t Gold 5,061 kg
Probable t Gold 139,649 kg
Proven & Probable t Gold 0.74 g/t 144,710 kg
Measured & Indicated t Gold 244,806 kg
Inferred t Gold 120,771 kg
Total Resource t Gold 0.9 g/t 365,576 kg

Financials:

Units20222021202020192018
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After-tax Income M RMB  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required 14.5  
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Heavy Mobile Equipment as of December 31, 2022:
HME TypeModelQuantityLeased or
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Mine Management:

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Staff:

EmployeesYear
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Annual Report 2022
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Annual Report 2018
Environmental Assessment 2018
Quarterly Report 2015
Corporate Presentation 2014
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