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The Agnew Gold Mine, formerly the Emu Mine, is a gold mine located west of Agnew, Western Australia. It is owned by the South African mining company Gold Fields.〔(Agnew, Australia, Gold ) AME Mineral Economics website, retrieved 2009-08-09〕 It is one of two mines the company operates in Australia, the other being the St Ives Gold Mine. Ore is mined at Agnew in the under ground ''Waroonga complex'' and the open pit ''Songvang'' operation.〔(Review of International Operations - Agnew Gold Mine ) Goldfields website, retrieved 2009-08-09〕 ==History== Western Mining - WMC, discovered the Agnew gold deposit in the early 1980s.〔(Western Mining Corporation Ltd ) Guide to Australian Business Records , retrieved 2009-08-09〕 A second gold mine in the area, the Lawlers Gold Mine, is operated by Barrick Gold. On 13 June 1989 the mine, then called the Emu mine, was the scene of one of the worst mining disasters in Western Australia when six workers drowned in the underground operations during a flood.〔(Miners injured in collapse at underground gold mine ) ABC News, published: 10 January 2012, accessed: 16 August 2013〕〔(EMU MINE DISASTER ) Department of mines report, published: 10 April 1990, accessed: 16 August 2013〕 The mine was purchased by Goldfields from WMC in late 2001.〔''The Australian Mines Handbook: 2003-2004 Edition'', page 65〕〔(News briefs ) Mining Engineering magazine, published 2001-11-01, retrieved 2009-08-09 〕 The combined price for the two Australian operations Goldfields purchased, St Ives and Agnew, was US$180 million in cash and $52 million in Gold Fields shares. Agnew, as of 2009, employees 114 permanent staff and 298 contractors.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Agnew Gold Mine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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