Hbj hampton boulder jubilee

Global mining company, Alacer Gold Corporation, the owner of the HBJ (Hampton-Boulder-Jubilee) open pit gold mine at Kalgoorlie, in Western Australia, is listed on the Toronto (Canadian) Stock Exchange as well as with the ASX ( Australian Securities Exchange). It is a mid-tier gold mining and exploration company that focuses on gold mining ventures in Australia and Turkey.

HBJ (Hampton-Boulder-Jubilee) Open pit is a Major Part of the South Kalgoorlie Operation
Alacer Gold Corporation was created as a result of the merger of Avoca Resources Limited and Anatolia Minerals Development Limited in early 2011. The Australian operations of Alacer Gold Corporation include the Higginsville Gold Operations and the South Kalgoorlie Operations (SKO) of which HBJ (Hampton-Boulder-Jubilee) in a major participant.

Tenements Cover an Area of Over 1,200 Square Kilometres
The South Kalgoorlie Operation freehold titles and tenements cover an area of more than 1,210 square kilometres, 10 kilometres north of Kambalda and the town of Coolgardie, 15 kilometres south of Kalgoorlie, in the Eastern Goldfields Region of Western Australia. The tenements are also a part of the Coolgardie/East Coolgardie mineral fields that take in the City of Kalgoorlie/ Boulder and the Shire of Coolgardie. Their tenements consist of the following:

- Prospecting licences ñ 51

- Mining leases ñ 39

- Exploration licences ñ five

- Freehold titles ñ 16

- Miscellaneous licences ñ 16

Alacer Gold Corporation has also applied for eight more tenements that include six miscellaneous licences and two mining leases that will increase their covering by a further 4.5 square kilometres.

HBJ (Hampton-Boulder-Jubilee) is the Largest SKO Open pit
The HBJ (Hampton-Boulder-Jubilee) mine is one of the largest open pits in the South Kalgoorlie Operation that is supplying over one million tonnes of ore annually for the Jubilee Gold Treatment Plant to mill and process . Most of this ore has been coming from the HBJ (Hampton-Boulder- Jubilee) pit and low grade stockpiles because of a large push back, or cutback, occurring at the HBJ pit that is exposing another ore body sitting immediately below the existing deposit. The HBJ (Hampton-Boulder- Jubilee) gold bearing ore body is about 2.6 kilometres deep and 2.6 kilometres long. It has been mined on and off for more than 25 years.

New Gold Treatment Plant on the Drawing Board
Alacer Gold Corporation is currently planning the construction of a new gold treatment plant to service the South Kalgoorlie Operation that would cater for an increased production level from the HBJ (Hampton-Boulder- Jubilee) mine. The new plant would have a capacity of processing 2.5 million tonnes of gold bearing ore a year and become the treatment hub for all the company's current ore sources and any further sources that could be developed in the future.
The present Jubilee gold processing plant was built is 1987 and kept in good working condition for the last 25 years. It incorporates the usual three stages of crushing, ball milling and integrated gravity circuit. It also uses the conventional carbon-in-leach (CIL), elution electro-winning and smelting processes. Gold recovery is at an efficient 85 to 95 percent.
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