Cairn Hill

Resource	Magnetite (Fe₃O₄), Copper (Cu), Gold (Au)
Company	In January 2015, Cu-River Mining Australia Pty Ltd took over ownership of the Cairn Hill mine.
Status	Operating
Mining operation	Open pit
Location	55 km south east of Coober Pedy, 16 km from the Stuart Highway and 90 km from the Wirrida Siding on the Tarcoola to Alice Springs railway
Tenement information	Download map showing location of Cairn Hill tenements via the South Australian Resources Information Gateway (SARIG)
The deposit	The Cairn Hill ore bodies occur within deformed Paleoproterozoic iron-rich sediments in the Mount Woods Inlier in the northern Gawler Craton
Resource estimates and production statistics	Company released resource estimates and production statistics for South Australia's major operating and approved mines are summarised in South Australia's major operating/approved mines: resources estimates and production statistics (PDF, updated regularly).
Approval process	Mining lease granted April 2008 Revised program for environment protection and rehabilitation for Cairn Hill Mine approved by South Australian Governmment in October 2017 allowing for an extension to the operations
Documents and reports	Mining lease proposal Cairn Hill Magnetite-Copper-Gold Mining Proposal Document (PDF 47 MB) Program for environment protection and rehabilitation (PEPR) Main document and approval letter Cairn Hill Magnetite-Copper-Gold Project - Program for Environment Protection and Rehabilitation (PEPR) Main report (PDF 22 MB) PEPR approval 2 August 2019 (PDF 1.4 MB) Appendices Cairn Hill Magnetite-Copper Gold Project - Program for Environment Protection and Rehabilitation (PEPR): Appendices A–E (PDF 59 MB) Cairn Hill Magnetite-Copper Gold Project - Program for Environment Protection and Rehabilitation (PEPR): Appendix F (PDF 64 MB) Cairn Hill Magnetite-Copper Gold Project - Program for Environment Protection and Rehabilitation (PEPR): Appendices G–I (PDF 57 MB) Mining compliance report Cairn Hill Annual Compliance Report, 2020-2021 (PDF 30 MB)
More information	For more information about this mining operation contact DEM.MiningRegRehab@sa.gov.au

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