9 Westgold Resources Limited Annual Report 2023 CUE Westgold’s Cue operation is located around the regional town of Cue and encompasses Westgold’s southern-most group of assets including the historic mining centres of Big Bell, Cuddingwarra, Day Dawn and Tuckabianna (see Figure 2). This package includes two of Western Australia’s most iconic past producers in the Big Bell mine (≈2.6Moz) and the Great Fingall mine (≈1.2Moz). It incorporates the 1.2-1.4Mtpa Tuckabianna processing hub, a 148-person village at Big Bell, a 266-person village at Cue and associated mining infrastructure to support a large FIFO and DIDO mining operation. In FY23, the Tuckabianna plant received underground ore from the large Big Bell underground and the smaller Comet underground mine in addition to stockpiled ore from the previously mined Cuddingwarra open pits. The Tuckabianna processing hub treated 1,328,159t of ore, at the upper range of the plant’s operating capacity on hard ore and in line with expectations. The hub produced 90,769oz of gold in FY23, achieving a metallurgical recovery of 87%. Big Bell remained the primary source of ore to the Tuckabianna mill, with the Comet underground mine providing additional feed early in the year, prior to entering care and maintenance. In addition to fresh underground feed, Westgold has access to significant ore stockpiles which it continued to utilise as supplementary ore feed at its Cue and Meekatharra processing hubs. 0 3 6 9 12 15 0 5 10 15 20 25 TRIFR LTIFR TRI Q4FY23 Q3FY23 Q2FY23 Q1FY23 Q4FY22 10 9 6 1.41 0.86 0.60 0.62 0.64 6 6 9.03 14.36 18.44 22.91 -63% 12 MONTH ROLLING INJURY FREQUENCY RATE 8.37 Figure 2 - Cue assets Figure 3 - Westgold has reduced TRIFR by 63% in FY23
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