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The Mount Morgans Gold Mine is a gold mine located 37 km west-south-west of Laverton, Western Australia. It is operated by Range River Gold, who purchased the mine from Barrick Gold in May 2009.〔(MINEDEX website - Mount Morgans search result )〕 The mine, having closed in 1998, reopened in December 2009.〔(Range River raises Mount Morgan gold output forecast ) miningweekly.com, published: 15 September 2009, accessed: 6 January 2010〕 The mine should not be confused with the Mount Morgan Gold Mine at Mount Morgan, Queensland. ==History== Gold was discovered at Mount Morgans in 1896 and, up until 1952, 328,000 ounces of gold at 15 g/t were produced, mostly in underground mining at the ''Westralia'' deposit.〔(Mt Morgans flyer ) Range River Gold website, accessed: 6 January 2010〕 Alf Morgans, later to become Premier of Western Australia for just 32 days, was responsible for the development of the Mount Morgans mineral field.〔(Morgans, Alfred Edward (1850 - 1933) ) Australian Dictonary of Biography, Online edition, accessed: 6 January 2010〕 In a second activities period, from 1988 to 1997, the mine produced 917,000 ounces at 3.2 g/t, now mostly from open pit operations. Mining at Mount Morgans ceased in 1998.〔 The processing plant of the mine was later removed. The current site, was originally owned by Plutonic Resources, a major Australian gold mining and exploration company.〔(PLUTONIC RESOURCES LIMITED (PLU) ) delisted.com.au, accessed: 1 January 2010〕〔(Atlantic Gold NL website ) accessed: 1 January 2009〕 Homestake Mining Company purchased Plutonic in April 1998 for more than $1.0 billion,〔(Homestake Mining Company - History ) accessed: 1 January 2009〕 and, in turn, Homestake was acquiered by Barrick Gold at the end of 2001.〔(MINEDEX website ) Plutonic search result, accessed: 5 January 2010〕 Barrick then sold the mine to Range River Gold in May 2009.〔(Completion of acquisition of Mt Morgans project ) Range River Gold ASX announcement, published: 21 May 2009, accessed: 6 January 2010〕 After the purchase of the mine, Range River concentrated its efforts at the ''The Craic'' deposit, which it hopes to recover 19,000 ounces of gold at 17.7 g/t.〔 On 14 December 2009, Range River announced that mining at re-commenced at Mount Morgans at ''The Craic'' open pit. The company plans to also mine the ''Transvaal'' deposit nearby, as an underground operation. An annual production of 40,000 ounces of gold is forecast.〔(Mining commences at Mount Morgans ) Range River Gold website, published: 14 December 2009, accessed: 6 January 2010〕 An agreement was signed with Barrick in January 2010 to purchase Mount Morgans ore and treat it at Barrick's Granny Smith Gold Mine from February 2010 onwards.〔(Mt Morgans - Ore Sale Terms agreed with Barrick ) Range River Gold ASX announcement, published: 27 January 2010, accessed: 9 February 2010〕 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「Mount Morgans Gold Mine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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