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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 ...
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.
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
In July 2010, it became a gold miner with the purchase of Paulsens Gold Mine. [4] In October 2020, a merger between NSR and Saracen Metal Holdings, its joint venture partner in the Super Pit gold mine, was proposed. The merger was completed in February 2021 when Saracen was de-listed from the Australian Securities Exchange. [5] [6]
Super Pit gold mine; T. Telfer mine; Thompson Creek mine; Toquepala mine; Turów Coal Mine; U. Udachnaya pipe; V. Voorspoed diamond mine; Y. Yanacocha This page was ...
The Homestake Mine pit in Lead, South Dakota Typical auriferous (gold-bearing) greenschist gold ore from the Homestake Mine. Two small masses of native gold (Au) are visible near the bottom right. The Homestake Mine was a deep underground gold mine (8,000 feet or 2,438 m) located in Lead, South Dakota. Until it closed in 2002 it was the largest ...
Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. The expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface has led to more complex extraction processes such as pit mining and gold cyanidation. In the 20th and 21st centuries, most ...