The Granites Gold Mine

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The granites gold mine.

The granites tanami region is located approximately 600 km northwest of alice springs and about 400 km southwest of halls creek in the northern territory. It has been operated by newmont mining since 2002. Granites tanami operations gold mine report summary granites tanami operations consists of the granites treatment plant and mining operations located in the northern territory approximately 550 kilometres northwest of alice springs and the dead bullock soak mining operations approximately 40 kilometres west of the granites. The mine site is the most remote in australia with the closest communities of yuendumu and lajamanu approximately 370 km south and 390 km north east of the mine.

The granites is a gold mine in the tanami desert of the northern territory of australia. Tom has over 35 years experience working as an exploration geologist mainly in gold and base metals and more recently in industrial minerals principally kaolin. Gold was discovered in the tanami desert by alan davidson. The granites gold mine in the tanami desert will increase production by 80 000 ounces per year thanks to a 150 million expansion project.

The mine and plant are located on aboriginal freehold land that is owned by the warlpiri people and managed on their behalf by the central desert aboriginal lands trust. He took the name tanami for the region from local aboriginal people who visited his. Tanami is the second largest underground gold mine in australia. The mine about 500 kilometres north west of alice.

Social impact assessments sias every five years we conduct extensive research on the impact of our operations through social impact assessments. Galore creek mining corporation is a partnership between newmont and teck developing a world class copper gold and silver project. The rom ore is crushed in a 3 stage crushing circuit to an approximately p80 of 12 mm. Newmont nfm the granites gold mine.

Underground ore is transported 44 km by trucks to the granites processing plant site and stockpiled on a rom pad adjacent to the crushing plant. Gold discoveries by nfm some 30km west of the granites at dead bullock soak and callie resulted in more mines but these are not covered by this talk. Featured location galore creek. Currently is processing ore from callie gold mine 40 km to the west.

The equipment utilised to crush the ore is as. Descriptions of regolith materials are largely.