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Excelsior starts mining at Kalgoorlie North

19th November 2015

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

  

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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Openpit mining has started at the Kalgoorlie North gold project, in Western Australia, just days after owner Excelsior Gold awarded an openpit mining contract to Hampton Transport Services.

The Castlereagh openpit, along with the Jackorite, Big Blow South and Zoroastrian Central openpit would provide 1.36-million tonnes of ore, grading 2 g/t gold, which would be treated at the Paddington mill over the next 18 months.

The company recently signed a new ore treatment agreement at the Kalgoorlie North project with gold miner Norton Gold Fields, which would process an initial allocation of up to 2.9-million tonnes of ore at a minimum rate of 500 000 t/y over a five-year-and-ten-month period.

With mining in progress and the operations team in place, Excelsior said on Thursday that it would review options to develop additional openpits at the Parkerville, Big Blow North and Nerrin Nerrin deposits, which were all in close proximity to the Castlereagh operations.

Clearing and construction of the 20 km haul road connecting the openpit deposits to the Paddington mill was well advanced, and ore haulage was expected to start in December.

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