Mines/Australia

St Ives mine

St Ives mine, Australia. Producing, open pit and underground, mining gold.

Why St Ives is famous

St Ives is a gold operation in the eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, 75 km south-south-east of Kalgoorlie. Gold Fields reports 369.6 koz of gold in 2025 and a 4.7 Mtpa processing capacity. The Invincible underground complex is its main ore source, and the company expects mine life into 2040.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Orogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)

St Ives today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Mines

Located inKalgoorlieSt Ives lies 75 km south-south-east of Kalgoorlie. It made 369.6 koz of gold in 2025.1An example ofGolden Mile, Kalgoorlie-BoulderThe Golden Mile of 1893 and St Ives today: Goldfields gold stretches over 130 years.1

Deposit types

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

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. 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.