The Mt Boppy Gold Mine near Cobar in NSW is an open cut gold mine.

At Mount Boppy gold production from an underground mining operation commenced in 1901 and continued to 1923. In its day the mine was one of the largest gold producers in Australia. The orebody delivered some 417,000 ounces of gold from ore with a notional grade of 15 g/t gold (12.2 g/t gold recovered). Sporadic operation up to 2002 added a further 7,000 ounces of gold production. This included gold recovered from the first Carbon-In-Pulp (CIP) plant built in Australia in 1975 at Mount Boppy to re-treat the historic tailings.

Polymetals re-opened the Mount Boppy Mine in 2002, establishing open cut operations over the historic underground mine. Between 2002 and the mine closure in 2005, the operations produced approximately 68 koz of gold from 500,000 t of ore with an average grade of 5.29 g/t gold (4.2 g/t gold recovered). The site is currently under care and maintenance. Polymetals plans to add to the mining inventory of 560,000 t at 5.14 g/t gold by delineating additional high-grade ore sources prior to re-commencing mining.

Ready to produce

Plant and infrastructure on care and maintenance means there can be a short lead time to production.

Mine Office
John Black - Caretaker
Polymetals (Mt Boppy) Pty Ltd
Edward Street, Canbelego, NSW, 2835
Phone (02) 6837 3669