ROSEMONT GOLD MINE EDNA MAY GOLD MINE WESTERN AUSTRALIA WESTERN AUSTRALIA What rock can you find here? What rock can you find here? Dolerite Pegmatite and Gneiss About Rosemont Gold Mine About Edna May Gold Mine Operated by: Regis Resources Limited Operated by: Ramelius Resources Limited • Rosemont is Regis Resources first underground operation located within • Edna May is located within the Westonia Greenstone Belt, in the the Duketon Complex, 100km north of Laverton in Western Australia. Southern Cross province of Western Australia’s Archaean Yilgarn Craton. • Rosemont was discovered in the 1980s and was partially mined as a • In 1911, prospector Edmund John Annear applied for the first mining shallow oxide open pit by Aurora Gold Limited in the early 1990s. lease at a strike 1km north of the Westonia Townsite. He quickly established a mine at the claim which he named Edna May after his aunt. • Approximately 690,000 ounces have been produced from the open pit, and 38,000 ounces from underground since 2019. The current • Over 1 million ounces of gold have been produced at Edna May, with underground resource hosts 1.8 million tonnes, at 5.37g/t for more than half of this since 2011. Annual production since 2011 has 326,000 ounces. ranged from 66,000 ounces to 99,000 ounces. AUSTRALIA Rosemount MUNGARI GOLD MINE KUNDANA OPERATIONS SUNRISE DAM GOLD MINE Gold Mine WESTERN AUSTRALIA WESTERN AUSTRALIA WESTERN AUSTRALIA Sunrise Dam Gold Mine What rock can you find here? What rock can you find here? What rock can you find here? Kundana Tonalite Basalt Banded Iron Formation Operations Mungari About Mungari Gold Mine About Kundana Operations About Sunrise Dam Gold Mine Gold Mine Operated by: Evolution Mining Operated by: Northern Star Resources Limited Operated by: AngloGold Ashanti Australia Edna May Gold Mine • The Mungari gold operation is located 600km east of Perth and 20km • Gold was first discovered in the Kundana area of Western Australia in • Sunrise Dam gold mine is located 220km north-east of Kalgoorlie and west of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. 1896 by a prospector named Barker, and by the end of 1896, some 58 55km south of Laverton in Western Australia. • The operation consists of underground mining at Frog’s Leg and miners inhabited the site. • After discovery in 1990, open pit mining commenced in 1995, followed by open pit mining at White Foil and Cutters Ridge, with a considerable • Modern mining began in 1988 in the original Kundana South, Kundana underground development in 2003. Underground mining, carried out by a regional tenement package to the north around Castle Hill where the North and Strzelecki open pits. contract mining company, remains the primary source of ore, following the gold mineralisation is hosted in the tonalite rocks. • Mineralisation was discovered at the Rubicon Project in 1999. cessation of mining in the main open pit in 2014. • The operation hosts a total mineral resource of 51 million tonnes • Sunrise Dam is the largest known gold deposit in the Laverton Tectonic grading 1.47g/t gold for 2.4 million ounces. Zone of the Yilgarn Craton producing over 9.5 million ounces since 1995. This map shows the locations of the rock samples within the Gold Resources Kit, developed as part of the Gold Industry Group’s National Gold Education Program. goldindustrygroup.com.au education.goldindustrygroup.com.au.
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