Tomingley Deposits
Mineralisation is associated with quartz veining and alteration focused within sub volcanic basaltic-andesite sills and adjacent volcaniclastic sediments. The deposits appear to have formed as the result of a rheological contrast between the porphyritic sub-volcanic sills and the surrounding volcaniclastic sediments, with the sills showing brittle fracture and the sediments ductile deformation, and have many similarities to well documented orogenic-lode style gold deposits.

Mineralisation at Wyoming One is developed within a number of different zones:

- porphyry – mineralisation hosted by a quartz stockwork within the carapace of a subvolcanic sill with dimensions roughly 60m x 150m. High grade mineralisation is developed along the eastern contact of the zone (‘contact’ zone);

- hangingwall – a linear zone of mineralisation situated approximately 30m to hangingwall of the ‘porphyry’ mineralisation and hosted within silicified and brecciated carbonaceous mudstone. This zone is interpreted to fold around the northern end of the porphyry (northern zone);

- ‘376’ – east west zone of high grade mineralisation developed at the northern contact of the porphyry. Interpreted to be a bounding structure and primary fluid conduit. Other high grade east-west structures e.g. ‘831’ appear to be developed en-echelon and to the south of the ‘376’ zone;

- footwall – a low grade zone located in a similar stratigraphi ........

Tomingley Gold Mine is an open pit and underground mining development.

Mining at Tomingley has been based on the Wyoming One, Wyoming Three, Caloma One and Caloma Two gold deposits.

Two mining methods are used to mine the underground resource including Longhole Open Stoping (LHOS) with cemented rockfill or rockfill, and LHOS with rib pillars and no fill. The choice of mining method is determined by value of the resource, orebody width and geotechnical factors.

Stoping configurations are predominantly single-lift stoping (25m vertical interval) with strike length of 20-25m. The stoping method involves establishing a slot using conventional long-hole drill and blast techniques and then the stoping front is retreated along strike. The installation of brow cables and the use of a concurrent strike-retreat blasting sequence assist in controlling ground stability. Depending on the mining method used cemented rockfill or loose rockfill is filled into the stopes upon completion of mining. For the LHOS with rib pillars there is no placement of fill.

Ore production is scheduled at 840 ktpa which is trucked to surface using a fleet of four underground trucks. The truck fleet is matched with four Caterpillar R2900 loaders operating on a combination of teleremote and manual control. Normal drilling fleet includes two development jumbos and two production drills.

Alkane intends to extend gold mining operations at Tomingley to include t ........

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