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CSA (Cobar) Mine

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 Location:
10 km N from Cobar, New South Wales, Australia

  Address:
PO Box 31
Cobar
New South Wales, Australia
2835
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Copper
  • Silver
Mining Method
  • Longhole open stoping
  • Avoca
  • Cemented backfill
  • Paste backfill
Production Start...
Mine Life6 years (as of Jan 1, 2021)
Glencore's CSA Mine at Cobar is fourth highest grade copper mine in the world.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Glencore plc. 100 % Indirect
Cobar Management Pty Ltd. (operator) 100 % Direct
Cobar Management Pty Ltd (CMPL) operates the Cornish, Scottish and Australian (CSA) Mine. CMPL, a wholly owned Australian subsidiary of Glencore.

On March 17, 2022, Metals Acquisition Corp. entered into a definitive sale and purchase agreement with Glencore to acquir CSA. The Transaction will be effected by the acquisition by MAC’s 100%-owned subsidiary, Metals Acquisition Corp. (Australia) Pty Ltd, of the issued share capital of Cobar Management Pty Limited, a 100%-owned Glencore subsidiary which owns CSA.

The Transaction is expected to be completed in 2022.

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Deposit Type

  • Vein / narrow vein


Summary:

GEOLOGICAL SETTING
The CSA deposit is one of several base metal- and Au-bearing deposits of the Cobar Mineral Field. It occurs on the E margin of the early Devonian Cobar Basin (Central Lachlan Orogen) and is hosted by the CSA Siltstone (turbiditic siltstones and sandstones). The CSA Siltstone (Glen, 1991) is part of the Cobar Supergroup, consisting of lower syn-rift sediments (Nurri Group) and upper post-rift sag phase sediments (Amphitheatre Group). These rocks have undergone lowergreenschist metamorphism.

The CSA deposit lies near the stratigraphic top of the CSA Siltstone (Glen, 1994). It is bound to the W by the Footwall Fault (Kappelle, 1970) and located immediately N of the WNW-trending Plug Tank Fault and W of a NNE-trending right lateral fault (Glen, 1988). Between these structures, ore zones occur as a series of N-trending, steeply E-dipping lenses within the W- dipping host sequence. The lenses are parallel to the regional, steeply E-dipping cleavage. Rocks enclosing the mineralization show extensive alteration. Green Fe-rich chlorite and silica are prominent alterations.

Minor gossans occur close to the CSA mineralization. Weathering commonly reaches 20-100 m. Strong oxidation reaches 60 m and moderate to weak oxidation penetrates to 100 m. Secondary hematite and goethite mottling extends from surface to 75 m. Deeper oxidation commonly extends to >100 m along faults and shears and to >160 m over the CSA deposit itself.

MINE ........


Mining Methods

  • Longhole open stoping
  • Avoca
  • Cemented backfill
  • Paste backfill


Summary:

The mining method used at the CSA Mine for the majority of stoping remains as top down, continuous advance, long-hole open stoping. Most stopes to date have been filled with Cemented Hydraulic Fill (CHF) and the balance is filled with development waste, either as clean waste co disposal with CHF or as CRF. CHF has been phased out and replaced with Cemented Paste Backfill (CPB) commissioned July 2018 with full filter plant commissioning completed in November 2018. The majority of the QTS Nth stope sequences will be filled with CPB. Trials for the uses of the Modified AVOCA mining method have been undertaken to further increase opportunities to maximise waste disposal and allow mining of marginal mining areas. Modified AVOCA mining method will be used in mining the QTS Central and Western Orebody.

During 2021, underground horizontal development advancement totalled 5,515m. The primary focus was advancing the decline towards the 8465 level; the main decline position at end of year was 40m ahead of original budget position. This advance was completed along with continuing the 8500 and 8450 levels, production-related development in QTS North, and access development to establish mining in QTS Central and Western Zone, both commencing production in Q3 2021.

Mining is almost complete above the 8700 level in the QTS North, except for some already developed remnant material between 8850 - 8950. QTS South mining is complete above the 9015 level. The economic bottom ........


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Production:

CommodityProductUnits2022202120202019201820172016
Copper Metal in concentrate M lbs  ......  Subscription required ^  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required106118119
Copper Concentrate kt  ......  Subscription required ^  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required206211206
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics20222021202020182017
Ore tonnes mined  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required1,004,176 dmt1,118,580 dmt
Tonnes milled  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required1,002,132 dmt1,100,524 dmt
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Reserves at December 31, 2021:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGrade
Proven 4.2 Mt Copper 4 %
Proven 4.2 Mt Silver 16.4 g/t
Probable 2.6 Mt Copper 3.6 %
Probable 2.6 Mt Silver 14.1 g/t
Proven & Probable 6.8 Mt Copper 3.8 %
Proven & Probable 6.8 Mt Silver 15.6 g/t
Measured 3.9 Mt Copper 5.74 %
Measured 3.9 Mt Silver 24 g/t
Indicated 3.5 Mt Copper 4.92 %
Indicated 3.5 Mt Silver 20 g/t
Measured & Indicated 7.4 Mt Copper 5.36 %
Measured & Indicated 7.4 Mt Silver 22 g/t
Inferred 4 Mt Copper 5.41 %
Inferred 4 Mt Silver 20 g/t

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Mine Management:

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Staff:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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Press Release 2022
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Annual Report 2018
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Environmental Assessment 2015
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Other 2005
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