Resource

Gold (Au)

Location

Approximately 105 km northwest of Cockburn; 85 km north of Barrier Highway and transcontinental railway

Company and tenement information

Mining operation and status

  • Operating
  • Ore extracted via open cut mining method
  • Crushing and gravity separation ore processing undertaken to extract gold concentrate
  • Site contains a waste rock storage facility, two tailings storage facilities, workshop infrastructure and mine camp

The deposit

Stratigraphic succession at Portia includes up to 3 m of 'recent' age sediments associated with aeolian dunes and outwash deposits of the Frome plains underlain by Namba and Eyre Formations of the Tertiary age Lake Eyre Basin sequence.

Approval process

Mining lease granted

Current documents

Current program for environment protection and rehabilitation (PEPR)

Current annual compliance reports (ACR) and quarterly compliance reports (QCR)