St Barbara Limited is an Australian-based,
Australian Securities Exchange
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-listed (ASX)
gold
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producer and explorer.
History
The company was incorporated and listed in 1969 as Endeavour Oil and initially focused on
mineral exploration
Mining engineering is the extraction of minerals from the ground. It is associated with many other disciplines, such as mineral processing, exploration, excavation, geology, metallurgy, geotechnical engineering and surveying. A mining engineer m ...
and production from assets located in Western Australia. In 2005, the company acquired the Southern Cross, Leonora and South Laverton gold assets from
Sons of Gwalia Limited. St Barbara's high-grade
Gwalia Gold Mine
The Gwalia Gold Mine is located at Gwalia, Western Australia, Gwalia, a few kilometres south of Leonora, Western Australia. It was originally established by Wales, Welsh miners in the late 19th century and Herbert Hoover, the later President of ...
at
Leonora was commissioned in October 2008.
In 2012, St Barbara acquired
Allied Gold Mining Plc and its gold operations at
Simberi in Papua New Guinea and Gold Ridge in the
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...
. Operations at Gold Ridge in the Solomon Islands were suspended in April 2014 due to torrential rainfall and ensuing flooding. The Gold Ridge Project was sold to a Solomon Islands company associated with local landowners in May 2015.
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In May 2019, St Barbara bought Canadian Atlantic Gold Corp for ]Can$
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722 million ($536 million), adding a mine in Canada.
Operations
St Barbara's mines include the Simberi open-pit
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Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially ...
gold mine in Papua New Guinea
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.
See also
*Gold mining in Western Australia
Gold mining in Western Australia is the third largest commodity sector in Western Australia (WA), behind iron ore and LNG, with a value of A$17 billion in 2021–22. The 6.9 million troy ounces (214 tonnes) sold during this time period was the ...
*Open-pit mining
Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock (geology), rock or minerals from the earth.
Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially ...
*Underground mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a la ...
References
External links
St Barbara Ltd company profile
at Bloomberg
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Gold mining companies of Australia
Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
Gold mining in Western Australia
Companies based in Western Australia
1969 establishments in Australia