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Cadia mine

Cadia mine, Australia. Producing, open pit and underground, mining gold, copper, silver.

Why Cadia is famous

Block-cave gold and copper mine near Orange, New South Wales. Output was 385 koz of gold in 2025. Two new panel caves are being built. USGS put Cadia East at 18,600 kg in 2021. Newcrest acquired Cadia in 1991, and Newmont took 100 per cent through its 2023 purchase of Newcrest. The main mining lease runs to October 2038 and can be renewed.1,2,3,4

Story cards

What kind of deposit

Porphyry copper

Cadia today

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Deposit types

An example ofPorphyry copperCadia belongs to the porphyry copper family of deposits.5

Sources

  1. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 Newmont Corporation (SEC)
  2. Minerals Yearbook 2020-21, volume III: The Mineral Industry of Australia US Geological Survey
  3. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  4. Form 10-K for 2025 Newmont Corporation (SEC)
  5. 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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