(courtesy of @Pisces)...... .....this was 1988-89 .. Rio had...

(courtesy of @Pisces)......

.....this was 1988-89 .. Rio had control of the project who bought North who subsequently managed it . But the guys who designed the plant designed the wrong plant and the drilling wasn't done properly and there was pit wall failure . North ended up suing these people because of plant failure. In those times you didn't have to have a JORC resource so none of the drilling undertaken by North was recorded and they left all these orebodies there .

The gold price had dropped over $400 in around the preceding 12 months and was sitting at just over $400 and because the whole thing was a schemozzle and sentiment towards gold at the time was very poor Rio closed the project, but because they had environmental bonds in place they spent 8 years rehabing it and 2 open pit mines with tailing dams have been completely rehabed and importantly there is no environmental liability for future drilling.

A prospector eventually got hold of it and has sat on it for a long time until ARS negotiated the purchase .
There are 8000 pages on Tengraph re this project.

cheers