Kingston Celebrates First Gold from New Pit and Refurbished Plant


Danny Brennan, processing manager and project manager for the refurbishment of Mineral Hill
plant, with the Kingston board of directors (left to right - Tony Wehby, Mick Wilkes,
Danny Brennan, Stuart Rechner, Andrew Corbett).
Kingston Resources Ltd. has successfully recommissioned the crushing and grinding circuits with carbon-in-leach (CIL) recovery at the Mineral Hill processing plant in the Cobar Basin of New South Wales, Australia. Production through the crushing, grinding and CIL circuits continues to ramp up, with approximately 7,000 metric tons (mt) of ore fed to date. More than 30,000 mt of ore has been stockpiled and is ready to be fed into the plant.

“Ore mined from our new open pit at Pearse North has been processed into gold through our newly refurbished processing plant and sold into a market experiencing the highest gold prices in recorded history,” said Kingston Resources Managing Director & CEO, Andrew Corbett. “The achievements to date have been outstanding and we’re very proud of our ability to execute this transition and deliver a high quality and high value product.”

Corbett said the site team had done an outstanding job in leading the plant refurbishment and open pit start up safely and delivering a step change in production at Mineral Hill. The refurbishment team are finalizing the work on the flotation plant which the company expects to commission during October, when we commence sulphide ore production from the open pits.

Open pit mining at Mineral Hill is initially focused on Pearse North, with oxide and transitional ore continuing into Q3 2024, at which time sulphide ore production will commence. Mining at Pearse South is also scheduled to begin in Q3 2024. Historically, it produced high grade sulphide ore.

As featured in Womp 2024 Vol 09 - www.womp-int.com