Abstract
Ed Malone. 2011. The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Spectrum no. 19, Victoria, Australia. 252 p. ISBN 978-1-9215522-38-3. $70 AUS (also $50 AUS in CD-ROM format). The Cadia Valley Mines: A Mining Success Story is a comprehensive account of the discovery, evaluation, development, and operation of a series of gold-copper orebodies that today comprise Newcrest Mining Limited’s Cadia Valley operations. This is a globally significant cluster of porphyry-style ore deposits hosting at least 44 Moz of gold and 8 Mt of copper, and certainly worthy of the attention to detail provided by the book’s author, the economic geologist Ed Malone. The book is laid out in 25 chapters that cover, in chronological order, a preamble on generic aspects of the Cadia district (geography, geology and mineralization, mining methods, ore reserve estimation methodologies), the pre-Newcrest exploration period, and a detailed account of the Newcrest exploration and discovery phase. This is followed by accounts, from both a technical as well as …
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