Newcrest Mining has not suffered any interruption to gold production at the Cadia mine in New South Wales after the site was impacted by a seismic event last week.
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Red River locks in Hillgrove offtake agreement with Glencore
Red River Resources has confirmed an offtake agreement with Glencore for gold concentrate produced from the Bakers Creek stockpile at the Hillgrove mine in New South Wales.
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Bellevue builds confidence for production profile
Bellevue Gold believes drilling results at its namesake gold project in Western Australia will support an upscale of production and increase project economics for minimal extra cost. Read more
Monadelphous secures BHP, Rio Tinto contracts
Monadelphous has won contracts worth $215 million with a list of multinational miners, including BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group. Read more
Potential builds for Thor
Thor’s copper and gold legs are set to become a major focus for the Adelaide-based company in 2021 ahead of market upturns delivering fresh momentum to its existing critical minerals projects across tungsten, uranium and vanadium in Australia and the United States. Read more
Historic Victorian project on track for golden revival
Dart Mining is confident it is on to a significant copper-gold discovery at its project near the town of Mitta Mitta on the Omeo Highway in north-east Victoria. Read more
Wiluna to transform WA gold site
Wiluna Mining is fast approaching a major milestone in the staged transformation of its namesake operation in Western Australia’s northern Goldfields in to one of Australia’s biggest gold mines. Read more
Gold miners break new records
By Anthony Fensom
Australia’s gold miners have broken production records amid record high prices and a surge in investment and exploration activity. Are the good times here to last for the precious metal? Read more
Reducing the carbon footprint of gold operations
Gold mining is an energy-intensive and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-intensive industry. With climate change risks identified as financial risks and the Paris Agreement’s adoption in 2015, far greater scrutiny is being placed on companies’ GHG emissions and actions to mitigate them to become more environmentally sustainable. Read more
Newcrest rides a wave of change
Newcrest Mining managing director and chief executive Sandeep Biswas has named technological disruption, climate change and changing societal expectations as the key challenges the industry must face up to. Read more