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Million-tonne blast rocks Super Pit as mine owners look to complete $16b merger
A spectacular blast rocked one of Australia’s biggest gold mines as the co-owners of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Super Pit try to execute a seamless transition amid a $16 billion merger.
Key points:
- The Super Pit has produced more than 21m ounces of gold since open pit mining began in 1989
- At nearly 3.5 kilometres long, 1.5km wide and 600 metres deep, the Super Pit is so big it is visible from space
- The mine’s co-owners, Northern Star Resources and Saracen Mineral Holdings, are set to complete a $16b merger next month
The unusually large explosion at the Super Pit moved almost one million tonnes of ore in 25 seconds and was watched from a public lookout by hundreds of locals.
It required the loading of more than 200 tonnes of explosives into 1,780…
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