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Jundee mine

Jundee mine, Australia. Producing, open pit and underground, mining gold.

Why Jundee is famous

Jundee-Nimary is an open-pit and underground gold operation 45 km north-east of Wiluna in Western Australia. USGS listed it under Newmont with a gold capacity of 12,000 kg a year for 2021. Opening year and current ownership are not yet sourced.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Orogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)

Jundee today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Deposit types

An example ofOrogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)Jundee belongs to the orogenic gold family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Australia (advance release) US Geological Survey
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv (modern operations table) prospectortrails.com internal data
  3. 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.