Bronzewing Gold Mine
Gold on calcite, Bronzewing Mine
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| Location | |
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| Location | Leinster |
| State | Western Australia |
| Country | Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°23′05″S 121°00′31″E / 27.38472°S 121.00861°ECoordinates: 27°23′05″S 121°00′31″E / 27.38472°S 121.00861°E |
| Production | |
| Production | 50,966 |
| Financial year | 2011-12 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1991 |
| Active | 1991–2004 2008–2009 2010–2013 |
| Owner | |
| Company | Navigator Resources Limited |
| Website | Navigator website |
| Year of acquisition | October 2009 |
The Bronzewing Gold Mine is a gold mine located approximately 83 km north-east of Leinster, Western Australia. The mine, owned by Navigator Resources Limited, is, since March 2013, in care and maintenance after its owner went into administration.
The mine is located within the Yandal Greenstone Belt.
Discovered by Mark Creasy, the sale of the Bronzewing deposit earned him an entry into the Guinness Book of Records, becoming the prospector receiving the richest payout, having received A$115 million for it from Great Central Mines.
The Bronzewing Gold Mine opened in 1991, then under the ownership of Great Central Mines, a company led by the ordained Rabbi Joseph Gutnick. Great Central Mines purchased the remaining 30% of the mine it didn't own in early 1995. On 20 May 1999, Bronzewing produced its 1,000,000th ounce of gold.
GMC was taken over by Normandy Mining, with Bronzewing, the Jundee Gold Mine and the Wiluna Gold Mine, in 1999 but continued trading until mid-2000. GMC acquired the Mt McClure Gold Mine, near Bronzewing, in September 1999 and integrating it in the later. Normandy, in turn, was taken over by the Newmont Mining Corporation in February 2002.
From 1991 to 2004, the mine produced over 3.0 million ounces of gold from eleven open cut and three underground operations, with the last of the later having closed shortly before the sale of the mine to View Resources.
View Resources purchased the mine in July 2004 from Newmont for A$9.0 million, a package that also included the McClure mining operation, 8 km west of Bronzewing. The company initially placed the mine in care and maintenance and hoped to resume production in mid-2005.
It later deferred the start of production date, making the final payment to Newmont in regards to the Bronzewing purchase in July 2005. In October 2006, View announced it would redevelop the plant at Bronzewing and target a mid-2007 start date for production.
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