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Tropicana mine

Tropicana mine, Australia. Producing, mining gold since 2013.

Why Tropicana is famous

Gold mine in the Western Australian desert. AngloGold Ashanti records Tropicana and Kibali as the two projects commissioned in the second half of 2013. AngloGold Ashanti says Tropicana was one of two gold projects commissioned in the second half of 2013, with Kibali. It made 305 koz of gold on a 70 per cent attributable basis in 2025. The lease expires in 2036. USGS places it 330 km north-east of Kalgoorlie.1,2,3,4

Story cards

What kind of deposit

Orogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)

Tropicana today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Mines

An example ofKibaliAngloGold Ashanti commissioned Tropicana and Kibali in the second half of 2013.1

Deposit types

An example ofOrogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)Tropicana belongs to the orogenic gold family of deposits.5

Sources

  1. Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025 AngloGold Ashanti plc (SEC)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  3. Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025 AngloGold Ashanti plc (SEC)
  4. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Australia (advance release) US Geological Survey
  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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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.