The Kirkalocka Gold Mine is an active

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located 70 km south of

Mount Magnet, Western Australia Mount Magnet is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It is one of the region's original gold mining towns, and the longest surviving gold mining settlement in the state. The prominent hill that is adjacent to the current townsite w ...

. The mine had been placed in

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in 2008MINEDEX website - Kirkalocka search result
accessed: 31 July 2010 but reopened for a brief period between 2018 and 2021. The mine's owner, Adaman Resources, was placed into administration in May 2021. It was named after the nearby

Kirkalocka Kirkalocka is a former sheep station in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Location It is located 55 kilometres (35 mi) south-south-west of Mount Magnet, 420 kilometres (260 mi) north east of Perth. The station covers ap ...

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History

Exploration at Kirkalocka has been carried out by a number of companies, including

Sons of Gwalia Sons of Gwalia was a Western Australian mining company that mined gold, tantalum, spodumene, lithium and tin. It was Australia's third-largest gold producer and also controlled more than half the world's production of tantalum,Kirkalocka Gold Project
Mount Magnet South website, accessed: 31 July 2010 Equigold, after constructing a plant, commenced mining in September 2002. Over the next six years, the company extracted 307,621 ounces of gold from the deposit, at a grade of 1.52 g/t. Equigold finished mining in October 2005, and continued milling broken ore stockpiles until 14 August 2008. The mine was placed in

in September 2008. Equigold Limited sold the Kirkalocka tenements to Mount Magnet South NL in April 2008. The Kirkalocka plant, with associated infrastructure, was acquired by Mount Magnet South in a separate transaction in March 2009. In November 2015, Kirkalocka was sold to Minjar Gold Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Shandong Tyan Home Co Ltd, a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The mine was purchased from Minjar Gold by a private company, Adaman Resources in 2017 for A$12 million. Adaman recommenced mining in late 2018. Adaman entered voluntary administration in May 2021, with the company believed to owe creditors more than A$100 million. Administrators Cor Cordis announced a refinancing of the company in August 2021.

Production

Production of the mine:

References

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External links

MINEDEX website: Kirkalocka
Database of the

Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety is a department of the Government of Western Australia. The department was formed on 1 July 2017, out of the former Department of Mines and Petroleum and Department of Commerce. A restr ...

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