{"id":459259,"date":"2026-02-05T03:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459259\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:59:11","slug":"workers-death-at-tanami-gold-mine-in-central-australia-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459259\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker’s death at Tanami gold mine in Central Australia under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 47-year-old worker has died following an incident at the Tanami gold mine in remote Central Australia on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Mining company Newmont, which owns and operates the mine, confirmed the employee’s death in a statement eraly on Thursday, saying “our thoughts are with the individual’s family, friends and colleagues during this very difficult time”.<\/p>\n

“Emergency response procedures were immediately activated, and relevant authorities have been notified and are attending the site,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“Newmont will provide our full support to assist with the investigation into this tragic incident.”<\/p>\n

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The Tanami worksite is operated by Newmont. (ABC News: Sam Druce)<\/p>\n

An NT Police Force spokesperson said in a statement the death had been reported to police around 4pm on Wednesday, with officers from Yuendumu, about 270 kilometres away, attending and establishing a crime scene.<\/p>\n

“Investigations are ongoing with members from the Coronial Investigation Unit and Crime Scene Examination Unit attending the site today,” they said.<\/p>\n

NT WorkSafe confirmed it had commenced an inquiry into the incident, which a spokesperson said had occurred at a construction site.<\/p>\n

“Initial enquires indicate a potential failure of a winch occurred during a lift as a contributing factor to the incident,” they said.<\/p>\n

All activities at the Tanami mine site \u2014 located 540 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs \u2014 have been suspended.<\/p>\n

According to the Newmont website, the Tanami mine is one of Australia’s largest underground gold mines, extending more than 1.7 kilometres underground.<\/p>\n

The site is located in the remote Tanami Desert and all of its 1,800 workers are fly-in fly-out (FIFO).<\/p>\n

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NT WorkSafe is investigating the Tanami gold mine incident. (ABC News: Sam Druce)<\/p>\n

The mine produces about 400,000 ounces, or more than 11 tonnes, of gold each year.<\/p>\n

In the more than two decades since Newmont acquired the site, the company has expanded the mine’s scale, depth and infrastructure so it is now classified as a tier 1 underground gold asset.<\/p>\n

In October, an industry magazine reported the company had completed expansions at the site that gave the mine the deepest hoisting shaft in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 47-year-old worker has died following an incident at the Tanami gold mine in remote Central Australia on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,126176,1300,236206,53495,208146,236204,236203,236202,208145,8867,1098,236201,236197,235629,154988,236198,236207,236200,236208,236199,143400,156091,236205],"class_list":["post-459259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-central-australia","tag-death","tag-desert-mine","tag-gold-mine","tag-mine-collapse","tag-mine-worker-death","tag-miner-dies","tag-miner-killed","tag-mining-accident","tag-northern-territory","tag-nt","tag-nt-mine","tag-outback-mine","tag-outback-nt","tag-tanami","tag-tanami-accident","tag-tanami-desert","tag-tanami-mine","tag-tanami-mine-collapse","tag-tanami-worker-killed","tag-worker-dies","tag-worker-killed","tag-worksite-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}