Mine Details
Mt boppy
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The Mt Boppy open cut gold mine is located 46 kilometres east of Cobarin western New South Wales. The mine began its life as an underground mining operation in 1901 with mining continuing until 1923. During this time it was widely recognised as being one of the biggest gold producers in Australia, having produced 417,000 ounces of gold from ore, grading at 15 grams a tonne, with 12.2 grams a tonne being recovered.
The First Carbon-in-Pulp Plant Used in Australia was Built at the Mt Boppy Mine in 1975
Up until 2002 mining at the Mt Boppy mine was carried out from time to time producing a further 7,000 ounces of gold. Much of this gold was recovered with the use of the first carbon-in-pulp (CIP) plant to be used in Australia. This CIP gold treatment plant was built at the Mt Boppy mine in 1975 to re-treat discarded historic tailings.Mt Boppy Mine in Care and Maintenance Since 2005
The Mt Boppy gold mine was re-opened by Polymetals, in 2002, that operated it as an open cut mine above the historic underground mine. Polymetals ceased mining at the Mt Boppy mine in 2005 after producing around 68 thousand ounces of gold from the mining of 500,000 tonnes of gold bearing ore, that averaged a grading of 5.29 grams of gold to each tonne, with a recovery rate of 4.2 grams of gold a tonne. Since its closure in 2005 the Mt Boppy mine has remained in care and maintenance.Mt Boppy Part of the Canbelego Project
When Polymetals merged with Southern Cross Goldfields in August 2013, the Mt Boppy mine became an asset belonging to the merged body as it was part of the wider Canbelego Project, an area covered by 204 square kilometres of tenements. Polymetals had undertaken exploration of the Canbelego Project area between 2011 and 2013.
Historic exploration of the Canbelego project area had been limited to shallow resource drilling but it also showed the mineralised structure previously mined in the Mt Boppy pit actually continued in a southerly direction which gave the potential to extend mining of the Mt Boppy pit in that direction.
