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The Sunrise Dam Gold Mine is located 55 km south of Laverton, Western Australia. It is fully owned by AngloGold Ashanti. In 2007, it accounted for 11% of the company's production.〔(AngloGold Ashanti website - Country Report Australia ) page: 6, accessed: 13 December 2008〕 The mine is currently the company's only Australian operation. A second Australian project, the Tropicana Gold Mine, is in development and scheduled to open in 2013.〔(AngloGold sees q1 '13 for Tropicana gold mine starting ) Industrysearch.com.au, published 28 July 2009, retrieved 3 September 2009〕 ==History== The gold deposit at Sunrise Dam was discovered in August 1988〔(Sunrise Dam gold deposit ) accessed: 13 December 2008〕 and gold mining operations started in 1995, mining ore in an open pit, the ''Mega Pit'', which, in 2008, had reached a depth of 440 metres. In March 1997, the first gold was poured at the mine. In 1999, AngloGold acquired the mine through a takeover of Acacia Resources Ltd,〔(Article on Sunrise Dam ) Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism website, accessed: 13 December 2008〕 a move that also gained it a 33% stake in the Boddington project,〔(AngloGold Bids For Acacia Resources ) AngloGold website, published: 11 October 1999, accessed: 13 December 2008〕 which it sold in early 2009 for $1.5 billion. Acacia, formerly Billiton PLC, was delisted from the Australian Stock Market on 11 January 2000.〔(ACACIA RESOURCES LIMITED (AAA) ) Delisted.com.au, retrieved 3 September 2009〕 In 2003, underground operations commenced. In 2006, AngloGold signed a contract for conversion of its diesel power generators to liquefied natural gas as a cost-saving matter as well as to protect the environment.〔(AngloGold Ashanti website - Country Report Australia ) page: 3, accessed: 13 December 2008〕 In the June quarter of 2009, the mine produced 94,000 ounces of gold, a slight reduction to the previous quarter. At the same time, cost fell by 24% due to the use of existing stockpiles.〔(Quarterly report June 2009 ) AngloGold website, retrieved 2009-08-07〕 During 2009, AngloGold discussed the option of processing ore from the ''Fortitude'' deposit, 36 km south of Sunrise Dam and owned by Midas Resources, at the mine.〔(Progress Report ) Midas ASX announcement, published: 16 September 2009, accessed: 27 January 2010〕 The majority of the mine workers are on a fly-in fly-out roster, with Skippers Aviation providing a charter service twice-daily from Monday to Friday.〔(Skippers website - Charters ) accessed: 15 November 2009〕 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「Sunrise Dam Gold Mine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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