Gwalia Gold Mine

Gwalia Gold Mine c. 1921
Location
Gwalia Gold Mine is located in Western Australia
Gwalia Gold Mine
Gwalia Gold Mine
Location in Western Australia
LocationGwalia
StateWestern Australia
CountryAustralia
Coordinates28°55′07″S 121°20′00″E / 28.918711°S 121.333383°E / -28.918711; 121.333383 Edit this at Wikidata
Production
ProductsGold
Production138,050 troy ounces (4,294 kg)[1]
Financial year2022–23
History
Opened1896
Owner
CompanyGenesis Minerals Limited
Websitegenesisminerals.com.au/leonora-gold-project Edit this at Wikidata
Year of acquisitionJuly 2023
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The Gwalia Gold Mine is located at Gwalia, a few kilometres south of Leonora, Western Australia. It was originally established by Welsh miners in the late 19th century and Herbert Hoover, the later President of the United States, served as the mine manager in its early days from May to November 1898.[2][3]

It is operated by Genesis Minerals Limited.[4] The mine, with a depth of 1,600 metres (5,200 ft) in 2019, is Australia's deepest underground gold mine and the deepest trucking mine in the world, with a proposed depth of 2,300 metres (7,500 ft) by 2031. From its discovery to 2019, the mine produced 5.5 million troy ounces (170 t) of gold, at a 2019 equivalent value of A$10 billion.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Annual23 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ St Barbara website - Leonora Archived 5 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 3 September 2009
  3. ^ Gwalia Historic Site - History Archived 2010-01-10 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 4 September 2009
  4. ^ Le Messurier, Danielle (6 July 2023). "St Barbara shares tank after Gwalia sale". The West Australian. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference ABC Goldfields was invoked but never defined (see the help page).