Metals X goes underground at Paddy's Flat
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Diversified junior Metals X has awarded a three-year underground mining and services contract for its Paddy’s Flat gold mine, which forms part of the larger Central Murchison gold project, to Australian Contract Mining.
Work at the underground operation was expected to start in September.
Metals X CEO Peter Cook on Tuesday said the company was pleased to start the Paddy’s Flat underground mine, as well as to start a new chapter in the Meekatharra district, which would take focus back to underground mining.
The Paddy’s Flat underground mine is the first of several underground operations planned to start in a sequential manner at the Central Murchison gold project. Openpit mining started in June and the process plant was expected to start operating in October.
Metals X in January announced a revised development strategy for the Central Murchison project, following the acquisition of the Meekatharra gold operation as a bolt-on project. The acquisition added a two-million-tonne-a-year processing plant and significant operational infrastructure.
The expanded project now contains 72 separate mineral resource mining opportunities and has a resource of about 8.5-million ounces and a reserve of 2.05-million ounces.
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