{"id":627133,"date":"2026-04-24T04:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:27:09","slug":"newmonts-cadia-gold-mine-aims-to-fix-earthquake-damage-in-five-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627133\/","title":{"rendered":"Newmont’s Cadia gold mine aims to fix earthquake damage in five weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the country’s largest gold mines expects to reopen its underground facility in five weeks after an earthquake rattled the New South Wales Central West.<\/p>\n

Below ground operations at Newmont’s Cadia site have been suspended<\/a> since a magnitude-4.5 quake hit earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The epicentre was recorded just south-west of the mine, and was the region’s biggest on record.<\/p>\n

The company today released its first quarterly update for the year, stating that investigations about the impact of the tremor were still ongoing, but initial findings suggested damage was limited.<\/p>\n

“The operation is currently processing surface stockpiles and expects underground rehabilitation to be completed in the next five weeks, enabling a return to 80 per cent capacity,” the report said.<\/p>\n

Newmont said it expected to return to full operational capacity at the end of the second quarter.<\/p>\n

The update projected production at the site to be lower due to a “short gap” in mill feed, but predicted a return to normal levels at the start of the third quarter.<\/p>\n

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Newmont’s Cadia gold mine, in the NSW Central West, is expected to return to full capacity by mid 2026. (Supplied: Happy Snapper)<\/p>\n

The quake on April 14 triggered the mine’s safety protocols, which sent all underground workers into refuge chambers while two aftershocks occurred.<\/p>\n

It took more than 10 hours to evacuate all employees safely to the surface, with no injuries reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the country’s largest gold mines expects to reopen its underground facility in five weeks after an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,270307,53304,303984,25273,9989,303985,270308,303983,41039,101153,15343,33477],"class_list":{"0":"post-627133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cadia","12":"tag-cadia-gold-mine","13":"tag-cadia-mine","14":"tag-damage","15":"tag-earthquake","16":"tag-earthquake-damage","17":"tag-newmont","18":"tag-newmont-cadia-mine","19":"tag-orange","20":"tag-quake","21":"tag-schedule","22":"tag-underground"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627133","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=627133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}