Location Wiluna Country Australia Financial year 2009 Address Wiluna WA 6646, Australia Company Northern Star Resources | State Western Australia Production 412,300 Website Northern Star Website Phone +61 8 9983 7000 Opened 1995 | |
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The Jundee Gold Mine is an active gold mine in Western Australia, approximately 55 km north east of the town of Wiluna, owned by Northern Star Resources.
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History
The Jundee mine was opened in 1995, originally as an open pit operation and, from 1997, also as an underground mine.
Originally, the mine was owned to 51% by Great Central Mines, which acquired the remaining 49% in early 1995 for US$89 million, alongside 30% of the Bronzewing Gold Mine.
In 1997, the Jundee mine was enlarged with the acquisition of the nearby Nimary Gold Mine, owned by the Eagle Mining Corporation NL.
Great Central Mines, with Jundee, Bronzewing and the Wiluna Gold Mine, was taken over by Normandy Mining in June 2000 and Normandy, in turn, by the Newmont Mining Corporation in February 2002. Newmont sold the operations to Northern Star Resources in 2014
The mine was operating as an open pit and underground mine until 2007, when the last open pit closed. Newmont plans to return to open pit mining in 2010 if drilling results are positive. Currently, the mine is scheduled to close in 2013 but Newmont hopes to extend the mine life.
In 2007, the mine employed 552 people, in 2008 528, of which 155 were permanent staff and the rest contractors.