AngloGold’s Tropicana JV commits to Long Island strategy

Joint venture (JV) partners AngloGold Ashanti and Independence Group have committed to the initial phase of the Long Island strategy, which will ultimately add 2.1-million ounces to the Tropicana mine’s business plan and will extend the operation’s mine life by seven years to 2027. The brownfields project at the Tropicana mine, in Western Australia, is based on a more cost-effective approach to mine waste and involves using a strip-mining approach that minimises waste haulage by using in-pit backfill, rather than trucking material over long distances to surface waste dumps.