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Agnew mine

Agnew mine, Australia. Producing, underground, mining gold.

Why Agnew is famous

Agnew is an underground gold operation in the northern Goldfields of Western Australia, 23 km west of Leinster. Gold Fields reports 245.3 koz of gold in 2025 and a 1.35 Mtpa processing capacity. Waroonga is the key deposit being expanded.1,2,3

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What kind of deposit

Orogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)

Agnew today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Mines

An example ofSons of GwaliaNorthern Goldfields gold, old and new: Agnew near Leinster and Sons of Gwalia near Leonora.1

Deposit types

An example ofOrogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)Agnew belongs to the orogenic gold family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025 Gold Fields Limited (SEC)
  2. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Australia (advance release) US Geological Survey
  3. Agnew (locality) (Q4693175) Wikidata
  4. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.