Challenger Mine

Challenger Mine
Challenger Gold Mine
Challengermine.jpg
The plant at the minesite
Challenger Gold Mine is located in Australia
Challenger Gold Mine
Location in Australia

29.8767828662°S 133.586496796°E / 29.87678°S 133.5865°E / -29.87678; 133.5865Coordinates: 29.8767828662°S 133.586496796°E / 29.87678°S 133.5865°E / -29.87678; 133.5865
State South Australia
Country Australia
Owner
Company Dominion Mining
Website Dominion website
ASX DOM
Production
Financial year 2009-10
Ounces of Gold 80,570
History
Opened 2002
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The Challenger Mine is a gold mine in the Far North of South Australia, 165 km west of the Stuart Highway and 740 km north-west of Adelaide. It is operated by Dominion Mining.[1]

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History

The ore body was first discovered in 1995. The mine was initially an open pit commenced in 2002 and converted to underground mining in 2005.

It produced 43,547 troy ounces of gold in the year to 30 June 2005 and 108,080 ounces in 2006.[2]

The mine has a reserve of 512,000 ounces of gold from a resource of 1 million ounces of gold as of June 2007. The mine village houses up to 250 personnel who work on a fly-in fly-out roster. Henry Walker Eltin is the underground mining contractor.

Production

Production figures of the recent past were:[3]

Year Production Grade Cost per ounce
2005-06 108,080 ounces 9.52 g/t A$ 280
2006-07 108,191 ounces 9.66 g/t A$ 309
2007-08 109,326 ounces 8.35 g/t A$ 367
2008-09 98,755 ounces 7.54 g/t A$ 438
2009-10 [4] 80,570 ounces 5.0 g/t A$ 697

References

  1. ^ Challenger: History Dominion website, accessed: 27 July 2010
  2. ^ Russell Emmerson (2006-09-07). "Gold miner pays first dividend in 13 years". The Advertiser. p. 61. 
  3. ^ Challenger: Production Dominion website, accessed: 27 July 2010
  4. ^ Quarterly report June 2010 Dominion ASX announcement, published: 29 July 2010, accessed: 31 July 2010

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