Gold-rich quartz veins are reported to have been mined from numerous old workings dating from the early 1900s to the 1940s. During the 1980s, a series of open pits were mined to target high-grade gold-bearing quartz veins. Given the low gold price at the time, it is possible that open pit mining was discontinued prematurely; however, at todays’ gold price, economic mineralisation may exist beginning at the existing pit floor level, allowing for a simple pit cutback.
