Butcher Well
The Butcher Well gold project lies approximately 10km to the south west of the Red October deposit and hosts a group of gold deposits, including Old Camp, Enigmatic, Hronsky, Enigmatic North, Sizzler, Butcher Well North, Marchaleyo and Jericho, all of which are situated within a 4.5km strike in a north-south direction.
Three open pits, Hronsky, Enigmatic, and Butcher Well North, were mined as part of the Butcher Well group of deposits in the 1990’s, for a combined total of 0.69 Mt at 2.84 g/t, for approximately 63koz of gold, by Mt Burgess.
Current published resources for Butcher Well are 4.2Mt at 1.6 g/t for 221koz.
A significant exploration program is to be conducted in FY12 in an attempt to delineate sufficient reserves to justify the construction of a northern processing plant. The proposed Red October haul road is planned to run from Safari Bore to Butcher Well, which will then link Butcher well to the existing Carosue Dam haulage network.
Butcher Well North Pit
