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Super Pit. 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 ...
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. [2][3] The mine is operated by Northern Star Resources ...
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 $5 million (or more than 2,500 oz of gold), or, for operations where such figures are not reported, had a ...
Northern Star Resources. Website. www.nsrltd.com. Year of acquisition. 2014. The Kanowna Belle Gold Mine is a gold mine 19 kilometres (12 mi) north-east of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, near the ghost town of Kanowna. It is operated by Northern Star Resources. [2] Kanowna Belle has one viewing platform and an interpretive centre. [3][4]
Gold mines in the Kalgoorlie region. Gold mining in the area south of Lake Lefroy began as early as 1897 in small-scale operations but large-scale mining only began from 1920 onwards. In late 1919, prospector Pat Ives discovered gold further south from the original workings, with the gold mining district subsequently named after him. [4] [5]
Owner. Company. Silver Lake Resources. Website. www.silverlakeresources.com.au. Year of acquisition. November 2007. The Daisy Milano Gold Mine is a gold mine located 50 km south east of Kalgoorlie at Mount Monger Station, Western Australia. It is currently owned by Silver Lake Resources, who reopened the mine in December 2007.
Website. www.nortongoldfields.com.au. Year of acquisition. 2007. The Paddington Gold Mine is a gold mine located 5 km south of Broad Arrow, and 30 km north of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. It is operated by Norton Gold Fields Limited, having acquired the mine from Barrick Gold on 25 August 2007 for A$ 45 million. [1]
2022–23 [1] Gold mining in Western Australia is the third largest commodity sector in Western Australia (WA), behind iron ore and LNG, with a value of A$17 billion in 2021–22. The 6.9 million troy ounces (214 tonnes) sold during this time period was the highest amount in 20 years and accounted for almost 70 percent of all gold sold in ...