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Effect of Cadia tailings failings laid bare

GOLD production from Newcrest Mining’s Cadia copper-gold operation near Orange in New South Wales is almost 100,000 ounces behind where it was this time last year thanks to last month’s tailings dam failure.

 The failure of the northern tailings dam has cost Newcrest considerable production.

The failure of the northern tailings dam has cost Newcrest considerable production.

Cadia produced 443,706 ounces of gold, year to date. It had produced 543,053oz at the same time last year. On the copper front it turned out 45,883t YTD, down from the 55,987t it turned out for the...

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