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The Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter is a nickel smelter in Feysville, south of the town of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The smelter is operated by BHP and part of its Nickel West operations. Having originally been built by WMC Resources , it changed ownership in 2005 when BHP acquired WMC.
The Fimiston Open Pit, colloquially known as the Super Pit, is an open-pit mine in Australia. It was Australia's largest open cut gold mine until 2016 when it was surpassed by the Newmont Boddington gold mine also in Western Australia. The Super Pit is located off the Goldfields Highway on the south-east edge of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
Western Australian School of Mines. Coordinates: 30.74849°S 121.47413°E. School of Mines building, Coolgardie, circa 1929. Western Australian School of Mines (WASM) was founded in 1902 as the Kalgoorlie School of Mines. It was a tertiary school specialising in subjects directly related to the Western Australian mining industry.
The South Kalgoorlie Gold Mine is a gold mine located south-west of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. The mine is sometimes also referred to as "South Kal Mines - New Celebration", being a merger of the former New Celebration Gold Mine and the Jubilee Gold Mine, which were combined in 2002. The mine is operated by Northern Star Resources, who ...
List of active mines. This is a list of major active gold mines in Western Australia in 2022–23, according to the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety.To qualify for the department's official list of principal mining projects an operation has to either had mineral sales valued at more than $5 million (or more than 2,500 oz of gold), or, for operations where such figures are ...
The industry's regulating authority in Western Australia is the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, renamed from the Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) on 1 July 2017, which in turn replaced the Department of Industry and Resources (DOIR) on 1 January 2009. The department also produces the annual Western Australian Mineral ...
Kanowna Belle. / 30.61083°S 121.57667°E / -30.61083; 121.57667. The Kanowna Belle Gold Mine is a gold mine 19 kilometres (12 mi) north-east of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, near the ghost town of Kanowna . It is operated by Northern Star Resources. [2] Kanowna Belle has one viewing platform and an interpretive centre.
2021–22 [1] Nickel mining in Western Australia has been an industry that has had many fluctuations of fortune in its history. Large fluctuations in the world nickel price [2] have seen mines close and reopen on several occasions. Nickel mining is the sixth largest commodity sector in Western Australia with a value of $ 4.946 billion in 2021–22.