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The great opportunity

at Haverion

s Newcrest Mining Ltd chief executive “The processing plant but also the village,
A Sandeep Biswas recently recounted, it the stores, the critical spares, the bitumen air- Shaun Day
was only two years ago the leading gold pro- strip; all that infrastructure is there, which cre-
ducer was starting to prepare for the eventual ates this ability to have this low capex start-up metres of structure or multiple deposits. It’s all
end of operations at its longstanding Telfer and not have the risk of delays and overruns in this beautiful, intrusive subvertical orebody.
mine. that you would have with a truly greenfield de- “Haverion is in very much a growth phase.
With the main Telfer orebody rapidly deplet- velopment,” Day told Diggers & Dealers. Every day as we continue to drill we continue to
ing, there appeared to be no other viable ore “We’re building Haverion with this Newcrest give ourselves the opportunity to add ounces
sources on the horizon and a permanent mine team who have 35 years of experience work- and better understand this orebody.”
closure seemed inevitable. ing in the Paterson and a team of over 1,200 Greatland also has a number of regional tar-
Enter London-listed explorer Greatland already in place. From a Haverion perspective, gets it plans to test over the coming months,
Gold plc and the Haverion deposit, 50km to this is effectively a brownfields development including Juri, Scallywag and Rudall.
the east of Telfer. for the Newcrest team.” Day said while the main focus at Haverion
Newcrest and Greatland have now joined The potential for growth at Haverion is un- was gold, the copper opportunity could not be
forces and development of the Haverion un- wavering. Mineralisation has been intersected ignored.
derground decline began in May. A PFS on the in every single hole drilled into an orebody “Presently copper is about 20% of the rev-
deposit – described as “world-class” by those which is averaging 106 g/m over a 63m aver- enue with 160,000t just in that initial resource,”
who have run the ruler over it – is due later this age width. he said.
year, along with an upgrade to the existing 4.2 Greatland’s deepest hole goes down to “When you map out our overall life of mine,
moz @ 2.5 g/t gold equivalent resource. about 1,200m and struck 342m @ 746 g/m, the copper footprint per tonne of copper is go-
Greatland chief executive Shaun Day said indicating the potential at depth. ing to be a really attractive feature of it, and
his company was staring at a likely low capex “It’s just a beast of an orebody,” Day said. we think that low carbon footprint creates an-
development for Haverion on the back of being “And the ounces are contained in this 650m other competitive advantage in our investment
able to potentially truck ore to an existing facility strike length. It’s a very compact orebody, so case.”
at Telfer. we’re not chasing these ounces across kilo- – Michael Washbourne

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