AUSTRALIA was a matter of raising finance and construction and in March next year we will have our first gold bars .”
Striking gold This first gold will come from the brand new 2.5 million tonne per annum carbon-in-leach ( CIL ) processing plant being built under an EPC contract by GR Engineering , which will also be responsible for building supporting infrastructure including a tailings storage facility ; raw water supply infrastructure ; workshops , offices and infrastructure to support the Jupiter open pit ; an administration complex ; and a new haul road . The processing plant is located close to the Jupiter pit , where , later this year , run-of-mine ore will be trucked from the new underground mining complex being built by RUC Mining . The underground mining contract includes development of a new portal for Beresford , rehabilitation of the historic underground portal and Allanson decline ; and level development , ore driving , and stope production .
These are partners that Williams and his team know well , having worked with them at Avoca . Two separate mines are to be built to extract ore from the two main deposits at Westralia – Beresford and Allanson – with construction at the Beresford mine started in