SURFACE

Genesis dig for pit hole ore

BLAST-HOLE drilling and dewatering has begun at the Ulysses gold project in Western Australia as Genesis Minerals waits for the mining fleet to mobilise for a month-long campaign targeting a 10,000 tonne parcel of high-grade material – around 5% gold – left at the bottom of the Ulysses West open pit after a previous mining push last year.

Karma Barndon
Dewatering at Ulysses.

Dewatering at Ulysses.

Ore was mined to  52m below surface before Christmas and sent to the Paddington mill for processing. However, about 10,000t-20,000t of ore was too small for extraction and was left for removal by a smaller...

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