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The Little Eva Copper/Gold Project is located 90 kilometresnorth east of Mt Isa in Queensland. It is the first stage of Altona Mining Limited's larger Roseby Project that contains a resource of 1.27 million tonnes of copper and 0.38 million ounces of gold.
Little Eva Mine to Produce 38,000 Tonnes of Copper and 17,000 Ounces of Gold Annually
The Little Eva Project is expected to mine seven million tonnes of ore a year by means of an open pit mining operation that will also include a concentrator. The Little Eva mine, once operational will produce 17,000 ounces of gold and 38,800 tonnes of copper annually for at least 11 years. The mine has the potential of being one of Australia's largest base metal developments. Perth based, Altona Mining Limited, is an international base metals producer that specialises in copper production. It is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the Australian Securities Exchange.Little Eva Mine to be an Open pit Operation
It is planned that the Little Eva Copper/Gold Project be developed as an open pit mine along with three smaller deposits. Mining will incorporate conventional drilling and blasting. Excavation is to be carried out with the use of diesel powered excavators and dump trucks for haulage purposes. The mining fleet will include sixteen 140 tonne haulage trucks and two 250 tonne excavators.Little Eva Mine to be Protected Against Flooding
Mine waste is to be taken to an adjacent waste dump which will be an important part of the Little Eva mine storage facility. Mine waste will also be used in the construction of a bund for protection against flooding. The bund will be built around both the processing plant and the pit, it will be formed to divert water from Cabbage Tree Creek away from the mining operations. Ore from the mine will transported to the run-of-mine (ROM) pad in readiness to be directly fed into the crusher. In the first instance concentrate will be sent from the Little Eva mine, in containers, to a railway siding at Cloncurry, from there it will berailed to the port at Townsville for exporting to overseas customers.
Altona Mining Limited plans to lease most of the mine equipment as well as the supply of all explosives and fuel for the fleet that will be managed, maintained and operated by the mining contractor, when appointed.
The Little Eva mine will consist of a 30 metre dual lane haulage road within the pit at a gradient of 10 percent towards the pit's eastern wall. The pit is to be 240 metres deep, 600 metres wide and 1,300 metres long. In order to achieve an annual mining rate of seven million tonnes of ore it is envisaged that production rate stripping will continue at elevated rates for 18 months once production has commenced. However, the pit will require one more push back towards the end stage of mining for it to reach the planned depth of 240 metres.
