Golden Peaks Mine Geology and Gold Reserves Report

The Golden Peaks open-cut gold mine near Wau, Papua New Guinea, produced 165,224 tons of ore yielding 44,497.98 ounces of fine gold. Reserves as of June 1961 were 245,000 tons at 0.17 ounces per ton. This report from Geoscience Australia describes the orebody's composition and discusses hypotheses for its origin.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical gold production and reserve estimates based on the reported tonnage and yield figures.
• Studying orebody composition based on the description of altered Namie Breccia with manganiferous material.
• Evaluating geological hypotheses for mineralization based on the three origin possibilities discussed in the report.

Strengths

• Provides specific historical production figures: 165,224 tons of ore for 44,497.98 ounces of gold.
• Includes concrete reserve estimates as of a specific date (June 1961): 245,000 tons at 0.17 ounces per ton.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data freshness should be verified; the last update timestamp is 2026-05-26, which may be a future date or placeholder.
• The primary data format is PDF/HTML, which may require extraction for computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Time Range

Historical data up to June 1961

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 19:14:23.106546; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Golden Peaks mine near Wau, Papua New Guinea