The focus of this Honours project, initiated in mid-2017, was to determine the gold deportment in low copper, high gold material from the Telfer’s West Dome ore body in order to recognise value-add opportunities in current processing protocols.
The project included two weeks of fieldwork at Newcrest’s Telfer copper-gold mine where Hannah completed detailed core logging and sampling. A detailed analytical program consisting of petrographic characterisation, mineral liberation analysis and LA-ICP-MS was completed. Hannah was able to identify discrete gold deportment styles associated with paragenesis and degree of weathering, which informed potential new processing opportunities. The sub-project was completed in May 2018.
