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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 ...
Higginsville Gold Mine: Avoca Resources Limited Higginsville: Goldfields-Esperance: 131,227 (2008–09) Jundee Gold Mine: Newmont Wiluna: Mid West 412,300 (2009) Kalgoorlie Super Pit Gold Mine: Northern Star Resources (50%) Saracen Mineral (50%) Kalgoorlie: Goldfields-Esperance: 690,000 (2009) Kanowna Belle Gold Mine: Barrick Gold: Kalgoorlie
Sunrise Dam gold mine – gold mine near Laverton, Western Australia; Super Pit – gold mine near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Telfer Mine – gold and copper mine in the Pilbara, Western Australia; Peak Downs Mine – coking coal mine near Moranbah, Queensland; Goonyella Riverside Mine – metallurgical coking coal near Moranbah, Queensland
The Fimiston Open Pit (Super Pit) is an open-cut gold mine about 3.6 km (2.2 mi) long, 1.6 km (1.0 mi) wide, and over 600 m (1,969 ft) deep. Originally consisting of a large number of underground mines, including the Paringa, Oroya, Brown Hill, Chaffers, and Hainault mines, they were consolidated into a single open pit mine in 1989.
Some 1,350 feet deep and two miles across at its widest point, the Cortez open-pit gold mine outside Elko, Nev., looks like an asteroid crater—the largest hole in the ground you’ve ever seen.
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 ...
The feasibility study for the Super Pit Expansion is expected by the end of the year, paving the way for construction to start in 2025. Once completed, the $2 billion project 1,4 unlocks the potential to transform Lumwana into a long-life, high-yielding, top 25 copper producer 1 and a Tier One 2 copper mine.
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