PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA’s Landsat 9’s Operational Land Imager-2 Captures Telfer Mine5 Aug 2024 12:49
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(NASA) – NASA’s Landsat 9’s Operational Land Imager-2 captured this image of the open pits and ponds of Telfer Mine and the surrounding rust-colored soil on Dec. 15, 2023.
The soils have a reddish tint from the iron oxides that have accumulated from millions of years of weathering.
This part of Western Australia is known for being rich in natural resources, including petroleum, iron ore, copper, and certain precious metals.
Beneath the soils, veins of gold and silver run through sedimentary rocks, such as quartz sandstone and siltstone, that formed about 600 million years ago, when much of Australia was under water.
The Telfer Mine is a gold, copper and silver mine located at Telfer on the land of the Martu people in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. It is owned by Newmont, having acquired the previous owner, Newcrest Mining, formerly the largest gold producer listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, in November 2023.
The mine was discovered by Newmont in 1972. However, Jean-Paul Turcaud, a French prospector, disputes this claim to this day.
Telfer is one of two gold mines Newcrest currently operates in Australia, the other being Cadia in New South Wales.
In the 2019–2020 financial year, the Telfer mine produced 12.2 tons of gold, 16,000 tons of copper and 5.1 tons of silver.
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