Challenger Gold Mine | |
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The plant at the minesite |
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Challenger Gold Mine
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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 |
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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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 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 |