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Newmont Australia
Newmont's Australian portfolio includes Boddington, Cadia and the remote FIFO Tanami operation, spanning gold, copper and different mine-to-market routes.
At a glance
Western Australia · New South Wales · Northern Territory
Newmont operates three major Australian production centres. Tanami is an underground FIFO gold mine; Boddington is a large open-pit gold-copper mine; Cadia is a large underground gold-copper operation. Their products and downstream logistics are not identical.
This independent summary does not imply affiliation with the operator. Operational status, ownership and mine plans can change; follow the linked company sources for current detail.
Mine and project directory
4 Australian operations, mapped in plain English.
Operating mines are separated from development, care-and-maintenance and rehabilitation assets. Status and mine plans can change, so each profile links to the operator's current record.
Location16 km from Boddington and 130 km south-east of Perth, WA
Boddington
A large gold-and-copper operation using the North and South pits. The site is drive-in drive-out and supports local and south-west residential employment rather than a standard remote FIFO model.
- Mine type
- Surface · open pit
- Operating system
- Open-pit mining and autonomous haulage feed crushing, grinding and concentration, producing gold and copper products.
- Workforce lens
- Production, AHS control and field response, mobile maintenance, processing, electrical, technical and local support roles.
Location25 km from Orange, Central West NSW
Cadia East
The active mine within the Cadia complex uses large-scale panel caving to produce gold-and-copper ore. It has a distinctly different ground-control and material-flow system from a conventional stoping mine.
- Mine type
- Underground · panel cave
- Operating system
- Underground cave production feeds flotation and gravity circuits. Copper-gold concentrate is dewatered near Blayney and railed to Port Kembla; gold doré is also produced onsite.
- Workforce lens
- Predominantly regional and residential underground, process, cave-management, electrical, mechanical, control-room and technical roles.
LocationCadia Valley, 25 km from Orange, NSW
Ridgeway Mine
Ridgeway forms part of the wider Cadia site but is not the active production mine. Newmont identifies it as being in care and maintenance.
- Mine type
- Underground
- Operating system
- Asset-preservation, inspection, dewatering and site-integration work replace normal production while the mine remains inactive.
- Workforce lens
- Maintenance, statutory inspection, geotechnical, ventilation and care-and-maintenance work may remain; production vacancies should not be assumed.
Location540 km north-west of Alice Springs, Tanami Desert, NT
Tanami
A remote Tier 1 underground gold operation centred on the Callie orebody and Granites processing plant. It is one of Australia's most isolated large mine workplaces.
- Mine type
- Underground · long-hole open stoping
- Operating system
- Underground ore is trucked to the Granites plant for crushing, grinding, gravity recovery and carbon-in-leach processing. Expansion 2 adds a 1,460 m hoisting shaft.
- Workforce lens
- More than 1,800 FIFO personnel reported, supported by flights from Perth, Darwin, Brisbane and Alice Springs.
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Roles across the operating chain.
Job titles, rosters, residential requirements and contractor arrangements differ by site. Use the employer's current advertisement and position description.
Underground minersOpen-pit operatorsProcess operatorsMetallurgistsElectriciansMechanical fittersHD fittersControl-system techniciansGeologistsMine plannersSurveyorsRemote-site support
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Checked 30 August 2026. Company pages and mine plans change; these links are the current primary reference points.
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