Aga Op23 Sunrise Dam
Aga Op23 Sunrise Dam
Operational profile
Sunrise Dam, wholly owned by AngloGold Ashanti, is provides stockpile rehandling services. Ore from this open pit
located 220km northeast of Kalgoorlie and 55km south of displaced low-grade stockpile material from the mill feed from
Laverton. Underground mining, carried out by contract mid-2021.
mining company Barminco, is the primary source of ore. Sunrise Dam is one of two AngloGold Ashanti operations in the
An open pit called Golden Delicious, with a mine life of north-eastern goldfields of the state of Western Australia.
approximately three years, is currently being mined by
indigenous mining contractor Carey Mining, which also
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AngloGold Ashanti plc Operational profile 2023
Operational profile
Key performance statistics
Sunrise Dam Units 2023 2022 2021
Operating performance
Cut-off grade (1) g/t 1.80 0.90 – 1.80 0.75 – 1.65
Average recovered grade g/t 2.01 1.83 1.76
Tonnes treated/milled Mt 3.9 4.0 4.1
Gold production 000oz 252 232 229
Total cash costs $/oz 1,318 1,402 1,321
All-in sustaining costs $/oz 1,583 1,666 1,573
Capital expenditure $m 47 50 62
Productivity oz/TEC 27.58 26.68 28.12
Safety performance
No. of fatalities 0 0 0
Total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR) per million hours worked 3.23 4.08 8.94
People
Total average number of employees 763 725 679
– Permanent 163 137 130
– Contractors 600 588 549
Environmental performance
No. of reportable environmental incidents 0 0 0
Water use ML 2,231 1,912 2,247
Water use efficiency kL/t 0.57 0.48 0.55
Energy consumption PJ 2.94 3.08 3.10
Energy intensity GJ/t 0.75 0.77 0.77
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 000t 165 171 175
GHG emissions intensity kg CO2e/t 42 43 43
Cyanide use t 2,166 1,806 1,900
Total rehabilitation liabilities $m 39 37 49
Social performance
Community investment (2) $m 0.85 0.99 1.01
(3) (3)
Payments to government $m 35 47 59
(1)
Based on the Mineral Reserve
(2)
Total community investment for both Sunrise Dam and Tropicana
(3)
Restated data
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