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Newcrest Emergency Response (Ex Military fire truck re-purposed)
The Telfer gold-copper mines in the Great Sandy Desert in the East Pilbara region of Western Australia, are 100 per cent owned by Newcrest. Telfer is a fly-in-fly-out operation, 400 kilometres east-south-east of Port Hedland and approximately 1,300 kilometres by air or 1,900 kilometres by road north-east of the state’s capital, Perth.
Telfer comprises the Main Dome and West Dome open pits and the Telfer underground mine. Telfer also has a number of other prospective gold and poly-metallic deposits in the area covered by Newcrest’s existing mining and exploration tenements.
The ore from the mining operations is processed by a large, dual train, communition circuit followed by flotation and cyanide circuits, which produce gold doré and a copper-gold concentrate. The process is complex because of the need to accommodate differing ore types. Copper-gold concentrates produced at Telfer are filtered to produce a dewatered concentrate which is trucked to Port Hedland and exported to various smelters, primarily in the East Asia region. The gold doré produced at Telfer is refined at the Perth Mint.
Approximately six million ounces of gold were produced between 1975 until Telfer’s closure in 2000, with over four million ounces of gold produced since operations recommenced in 2004.
In the financial year ending 30 June 2015, Telfer produced 520,309 ounces of gold and 23,119 tonnes of copper.
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Newcrest Emergency Response (Ex Military fire truck re-purposed)
The Telfer gold-copper mines in the Great Sandy Desert in the East Pilbara region of Western Australia, are 100 per cent owned by Newcrest. Telfer is a fly-in-fly-out operation, 400 kilometres east-south-east of Port Hedland and approximately 1,300 kilometres by air or 1,900 kilometres by road north-east of the state’s capital, Perth.
Telfer comprises the Main Dome and West Dome open pits and the Telfer underground mine. Telfer also has a number of other prospective gold and poly-metallic deposits in the area covered by Newcrest’s existing mining and exploration tenements.
The ore from the mining operations is processed by a large, dual train, communition circuit followed by flotation and cyanide circuits, which produce gold doré and a copper-gold concentrate. The process is complex because of the need to accommodate differing ore types. Copper-gold concentrates produced at Telfer are filtered to produce a dewatered concentrate which is trucked to Port Hedland and exported to various smelters, primarily in the East Asia region. The gold doré produced at Telfer is refined at the Perth Mint.
Approximately six million ounces of gold were produced between 1975 until Telfer’s closure in 2000, with over four million ounces of gold produced since operations recommenced in 2004.
In the financial year ending 30 June 2015, Telfer produced 520,309 ounces of gold and 23,119 tonnes of copper.
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