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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: Goldfields-Esperance: 284,000 (2009) Laverton Gold Mine: Crescent Gold Limited: Laverton: Goldfields-Esperance: 73,474 (2009–10) Lawlers Gold Mine: Gold Fields ...
Creswick in the Victorian goldfields is the site of the New Australasian No.2 Gold Mine. On 12 December 1882, 29 miners became trapped underground by water that broke through from the adjacent flooded No.1 Gold Mine workings. Only five survived. Despite two days of frantic pumping, water filled the mine workings.
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 following are lists of gold mines and are subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and planned mines that have substantial gold output, organized by country. North America
Sometimes West Australian Goldfields, even the goldfields or Eastern Goldfields is a term that has been used to either identify the region surrounding Kalgoorlie-Boulder within the current broader designated region of Goldfields-Esperance in Western Australia.
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 Australia.
The economy of the Goldfields sub-region is based on the extraction and processing of various mineral resources, primarily gold and nickel. In 2012 the mining of gold, nickel and platinum yielded just under A$9 billion. [6] Pastoralism in the northern goldfields commenced in the early 1900s with Yundamindera Station being established by Dr. Laver.
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