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Boddington gold mine

Australia's largest producing gold mine, an open-cut gold and copper mine 13 km north-west of Boddington in Western Australia. Its gold sits invisibly in sulphides within diorite and volcanic rocks of the Archean Saddleback Greenstone Belt, not in quartz reefs.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 2,700,000,000 years ago mainstream
  the volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the Saddleback Greenstone Belt form, more than 2.7 billion years ago according to OzGeology source
• 1987 CE mainstream
  open-cut mining of the oxide ore begins; it stops on 30 November 2001 when that resource is worked out source
• 2010 CE mainstream
  on 3 February the expanded mine, now mining the bedrock ore and fully owned by Newmont, is officially opened source

Where

32.7519° S, 116.3500° E

The point is Wikipedia's position for the mine, 13 km north-west of the town of Boddington, south-east of Perth.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boddington_gold_mine
• https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/inside-australias-largest-richest-gold-mine

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