Boddington Gold Mine

The Boddington Gold Mine is a gold and copper mine located 13 km northwest of Boddington, Western Australia.Officially reopened on 3 February 2010, the mine has now become Australia's largest gold mine, eclipsing the Super Pit with an expected production of ~750,000oz in 2015.HistoryA large open-cut mining operation, it commenced in 1987 and ceased mining on 30 November 2001 after the known oxide ore resource had been processed.Partly owned by Normandy Mining (44.44%), Acacia Resources (33.33%) and Newcrest Mining (22.23%), the Normandy share was acquired by Newmont when it took over the company in 2002, while AngloGold took over Acacia.In 2005, Newcrest sold its interest in the Boddington mine for A$225 million, also to Newmont Mining.A bedrock resource of almost 20 million ounces was identified and expansion of the facility to allow mining and processing of basement rock was approved in 2002. Construction on the expansion project began in May 2006. When it achieves full nameplate throughput, it will become Australia's largest gold mine.On 29 January 2009, Newmont announced that it had raised $1.5 billion to acquire AngloGold's ownership position of 33% in the mine and thus became sole owner. Now fully owned by Newmont Mining, the mine reopened in 2009 after a major expansion project that increased the throughput to become Australia's largest gold mine.