The Agnew Gold Mine, formerly the Emu Mine, is a

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located west of

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. As of 2022, it is one of four mines the company operates in Australia, the others being the

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and the

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. Ore is mined at Agnew in the under ground Waroonga complex and the

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Goldfields website, retrieved 2009-08-09

History

Western Mining ( WMC) discovered the Agnew gold deposit in the early 1980s. A second gold mine in the area, the Lawlers Gold Mine, was operated by

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, until purchased by Gold Fields in October 2013. On 13 June 1989 the mine, then called the Emu mine, was the scene of one of the worst mining disasters in Western Australia when six workers drowned in the underground operations during a flood. The mine was purchased by Goldfields from WMC in late 2001.''The Australian Mines Handbook: 2003-2004 Edition'', page 65 The combined price for the two Australian operations Goldfields purchased, St Ives and Agnew, was US$180 million in cash and $52 million in Gold Fields shares. Agnew, in 2009, employed 114 permanent staff and 298 contractors. A 4 MW

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was added in 2019, along with a 17 MW wind farm and a 13MW/4MWh battery, supplying half the mine's power needs.

Production

Annual production of the mine:Annual Report 2005
Gold Fields website, retrieved 2009-08-10

References

Bibliography

External links

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MINEDEX website: Agnew - Emu
Database of the

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