Name of the Mine
Darlot Satellite mine.

Location  
About 900 km north-east of Perth, in the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia.  

Mine Owner/s  
The mine is operated through Red 5’s 100%-owned subsidiary, Darlot Mining Company.

Brief Description  
Darlot is an underground gold mine. The processing plant was suspended in July 2022, as part of the Darlot Transition Strategy, which will result in the Darlot underground mine’s becoming a high-grade feed source of Red 5’s new King of the Hills (KOTH) processing hub, 100 km away.

Brief History  
Mining from the Darlot operation started in November 1988.

The operation has previously been owned and operated by Sundowner Minerals, Forsayth, Plutonic Resources, Homestake Mining Company, Barrick Gold Corporation and Gold Fields, before its acquisition by Red 5 in October 2017.

Primary Metals/Minerals  
Gold.

Secondary Metals/Minerals  
None stated.

Geology/Mineralisation  
Gold mineralisation at Darlot is associated with quartz veins and alteration halos controlled by major structures or secondary splays and cross-linking structures.

The Darlot deposit has been differentiated into two separate entities – the Darlot lodes and Centenary orebody. The Centenary orebody is located about 1.2 km east of the Darlot openpit and down dip from the Darlot lode extensions.

In the Darlot lodes, gold mineralisation occurs within and around quartz laminar and sheeted quartz veins in local dilation zones along the Darlot thrust, in addition to subhorizontal extensional quartz veins in felsic volcanic and intrusive rocks above the thrust.

The Centenary orebody has been defined from about 150 m to 700 m below surface. Gold mineralisation occurs within subhorizontal to 20° westerly dipping stacked quartz veins bounded to the west by the Oval fault and to the east by the Lords fault.

Reserves  
Total mineral reserves as at June 30, 2022, was estimated at 1.31-million tonnes 2.6 g/t.

Resources  
The Darlot mine’s mineral resource as at June 30, 2022, which includes all stockpiles, run-of-mine, and underground broken stocks, is 17.1-million tonnes grading at 3.4 g/t.

Mining Method  
Underground, using a combination of longhole open stoping, room-and-pillar and narrow vein longhole stoping.

Major Infrastructure/Equipment  
The mine includes administrative offices and engineering workshops.

The mine’s process plant was placed on care and maintenance in July 2022.  The plant has a one-million-tonne-a-year carbon-in-pulp and carbon-in-leach gold processing plant on site at Darlot.

Prospects  
Darlot’s processing plant was recently suspended, with ore from the Darlot underground mine now being transported to the KOTH processing hub.

Contact Details
Red 5
Tel +61 8 9322 4455
Email info@red5limited.com

Sources
Gold Fields. Website: https://www.goldfields.com/.

Red 5. Website: https://www.red5limited.com/.
Red 5. 2022 Annual Report
Red 5. Ore reserve and mineral resource statement as at June 30, 2022 (September 7, 2022).