Overview. The Vatukoula Gold Mine is located in the northern part of Fiji's main island, approximately ten kilometres inland. The mine is situated at the base of the hills that make up the Tavua volcanic crater. A producing gold mine which currently has 4.1 million ounces of Mineral Resources and 750,000 ounces of Mineral Reserves.
Field exploration work completed to date in 2023 has resulted in a significant and improved understanding of the geological setting of the epithermal gold mineralization at Vatu Aurum and has confirmed the district-scale gold potential.
Vatukoula Gold Mines plc is the owner of the largest producing gold mine in Fiji. A producing gold mine which currently contains 3.8 million ounces of gold resources. Operating for over 75 years, the mine has produced in excess of …
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Gold mineralisation is thought to have been set downbetween 3 and 7 million years ago, post-dating magmatism by around 400,000 years. As currently understood, the vast majority of the gold at Vatukoula is located within a two square kilometre fractured block, largely in the form of gold in arsenopyrite.
Picture: SUPPLIED. By the 80s, Emperor Gold Mining (EGM) Company had been abstracting gold, silver and tellurium from the Tavua basin in Vatukoula for 45 years. Hundreds of miles of tunnels, shafts and cavernous holes had been hewn and blasted out of the hard basalt below Vatukoula, as company miner's extracted gold bearing rocks and …
By NS Energy Staff Writer 12 Oct 2011. Gold producer Vatukoula Gold Mines has discovered Baron d'Este, a new high grade ore zone, at its owned Vatukoula gold mine in Fiji. Drilling has intersected three new high-grade mineralised structures at the mine which form part of the new Baron d'Este ore zone.
The Vatukoula Gold Mine is an underground mine with an operational history of over 75 years. The Company holds a equity interest in the Mine. Areas of operations - Fiji. The Mine is located in Fiji, an island group in the South Pacific Ocean. Fiji comprises two main islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, with many smaller surrounding Islands.
Mining in Fiji dates back to the 1930s with the birth of the Vatukoula gold mine in the northern region of Viti Levu. Still in operation today, Vatukoula is a significant contributor to...
The Vatukoula Mine is an underground gold mine located on the main island Viti Levu in Fiji. The mine has produced more than 7 million ounces of gold over the last 85+ years. Since 2013, annual mine production has averaged 30,000–40,000 ounces per year.