Telfer Mine
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The Telfer Mine is a copper-gold mine, which is located at Telfer, a mining town in the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia, Australia. The mine is owned by the Australian company Newcrest Mining, the largest gold mining company in Australia, further is one of the ten largest in the world.
The Telfer mine is one of four mines Newcrest Mining in Australia.
In the financial year 2010/2011 32,078 tonnes of copper and 621,629 ounces of gold have been promoted in the Telfer mine.
History
The mine is located on the traditional Aboriginal land of Marthu.
Was discovered in the copper -gold deposit in 1972 by Newmont Mining, the forerunner of Newcrest Mining, which was established in 1966. The first mining began in 1977 with a joint venture Billiton BHP and Newmont Mining. 1990 merged Newmont Australia Limited and BHP Gold Limited for Newcrest Mining 1997, promoted five million ounces of gold, the mine. The mine was closed August 2000 due to high costs
Opened in 2004, Newcrest Mining, the mine as an open pit and underground mining in 2006, the adjacent hard rock again and had built a plant with a power plant of 138 megawatts for the deposition of copper and gold with a 450- kilometer gas pipeline from Port Hedland.
In June 2008, the promotion of the mining industry has been significantly affected by the gas crisis in Western Australia because of the explosion of the plant on Varanus Iceland, which led to a dismissal of 400 employees of the Telfer mine.
, 2010, Newcrest announced that the Telfer mine can be operated up to 2017 in underground and open pit in 2023.
Driveway
The Telfer mine is accessible via the Telfer Mine Road, a built and maintained by the mining company Outbackpiste, which is linked to the northwest of the Rippon Hills Road and the Marble Bar Road to the Great Northern Highway.
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