Cadia - Ridgeway Mine
New South Wales, Australia -
Underground /
Metal
Cadia Valley Operations (CVO) is one of Australia’s largest gold mining operations and is 100 per cent owned by Newcrest. It is located approximately 25 kilometres from the city of Orange in central west New South Wales and is 250 kilometres west of Sydney.
CVO comprises three mines - the Cadia Hill open pit mine, and the Cadia East and Ridgeway underground mines. These are all large scale mining operations using either block and panel caving or open pit mining methods. The new Cadia East underground mine, constructed at a cost of over $2 billion commenced commercial production on 1 January 2013.
At CVO, Newcrest produces gold doré from a gravity circuit and gold-rich copper concentrates from a flotation circuit. Gold doré from CVO is refined at the Perth Mint and concentrates are piped to a dewatering plant at nearby Blayney and sent by rail to Port Kembla in New South Wales for export mainly to Eastern Asia.
In the financial year ending 30 June 2015, CVO produced 667,418 ounces of gold and 73,697 tonnes of copper. Over 8 million ounces of gold has been produced from CVO since commercial production commenced in 1999.
Date:
06/09/2015
Mine:
Cadia - Ridgeway Mine
Mine Accident Type:
Outrush, Inrush, Crush Injury
Fatalities:
1