Carosue Dam Australia, WA

Location
120km NE Kalgoorlie WA

Nearest Town
Kalgoorlie, WA

Client
Saracen Mineral Holdings Ltd

Commodity
Gold

Contract Type
Schedule of Rates

Contract Duration
October 2017 - September 2024

Scope
Declining & lateral development, boxhole and raisebore drilling, autonomous loading, haulage and stope production using longhole open stoping methods.

Two separate pit portals - Karari & Whirling Dervish.

Byrnecut was successful in winning the four year, $440M underground mining services contract at Carosue Dam Operations through a competitive open tender process.

Byrnecut operates the projects from a centralised operations base at Carosue Dam, 120km east of Kalgoorlie WA. A modern large scale workshop facility undertakes major and minor maintenance on the collective mining fleet.

The contract encompasses two mining centres - Carosue Dam, comprising the Karari and Whirling Dervish mines, and Deep South, 100km north.

The Carosue Dam mines utilise emulsion explosives with production charging being undertaken by Orica using an MCU on a subcontract basis. Deep South is an ANFO operation.

New technology and innovation is key at the project. An extensive Sandvik Automine network enables the fleet of LH621i loaders to be operated autonomously from the surface. A dedicated Rhino box-hole drill, truck driver fatigue monitoring and collision avoidance systems also play pivotal roles at the operation.

The contract provides employment for over 300 personnel, working 365 days per year, 24 hours per day.

Access to site is via unsealed roads from Kalgoorlie, and Leonora, with a site airstrip operational since 2019. Personnel currently commute to site on a FIFO basis directly to CDO, or by road from Kalgoorlie.

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Carosue Dam
Australia, WA

Development Drills Sandvik DD421 3
Production Drills Sandvik DL421-15C 5
Box-hole Drill Rhino 100HM 1
Boggers Sandvik LH621 8
Trucks Atlas Copco MT65 10
Development Charge Wagons Normet MC605 Emulsion 3
Production Charge Vehicles Orica MCU 2

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