UNDERGROUND

A new dawn at Sunrise Dam

SEMITRAILERS running underground and reverse circulation drilling underground are two of the biggest changes for a Western Australian underground gold operation.

The Sandvik 60t haulers used at Sunrise Dam could find themselves replaced by semitrailers.

The Sandvik 60t haulers used at Sunrise Dam could find themselves replaced by semitrailers.

Anglogold Ashanti has already put in place a major upgrade to the Sunrise Dam processing plant and it is planning big changes to get the mine up to a 4 million tonne per annum throughput. The RC drilling...

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