Welcome to
Greater Bendigo Gold Mines Limited
An ASX listed company (ASX:GBM).
Greater Bendigo Gold Mines Limited's (GBM) primary focus is:
- The building of a strong gold production base in central Victoria, Australia.
GBM presently has 3 Areas of Focus, each in the Greater Bendigo region - being Inglewood, Avoca and Bendigo itself.
Within these Areas of Focus are a number of distinct projects involving one or more tenements, resource blocks and exploration targets.
The various projects are at a mix of development stages, with Inglewood's Maxwell mine in production and others in later or earlier analysis, exploration or development phases.
The 3 Areas of Focus are each within approximately a one hour drive of Bendigo City, on well formed roads with good service infrastructure.
Current status is summarised below:
| At production: | 1. | Inglewood - Inglewood is GBM's flagship project, and includes the Maxwell's processing plant and mine at production. - The Inglewood Project includes the Wedderburn, Kingower and Harvest Home JV & Queens Birthday JV resource blocks. |
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| Advanced analysis: | 2. | Avoca The Avoca focus consists of Mining and exploration licences over the Fiddlers Creek and Avoca area, along with an existing mine and processing plant at Fiddlers Creek - which are not at production. - Work authorities and licenses under company ISG covering the Beavis accuvial resource block and others at Maryborough |
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| 3. | Bendigo |
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| - | Wilson Hill a growing exploration project aiming at establishing a large minable resource from an continued field exploration target. | ||
| - | Also in Bendigo GBM has an - option to buy 100% of the Bendigo ensck tailings project - A 25% JV invested in the Sebastion Project |
At Inglewood and Fiddlers Creek. GBM, via subsidiary companies, owns substantial mining and processing plant & equipment.
GBM has highly focused, Bendigo based management, and geology teams.
The geology team is responsible for:
- managing the ongoing exploration and analysis programs being prepared and undertaken for the various projects. including computer modeling, drilling, mapping and sampling programs are ongoing.
- Planning applications and submissions in respect of exploration and development up to decision to mine stage.
GBM's main operational focus at present is on its producing Inglewood Project where a growing mining team is deployed developing stoping from and/or access to various mineralized shoots within the Maxwell's Mine.
Whilst GBM is focused primarily on gold production, it may undertake other activities;
- a secondary activity is intended to be dealing in industrial materials, mainly sands and gravels, which are by-products derived from some of its gold operations and can be profitably sold.
- a further non-core activity of investing in stand-alone operations in or related to the gold sector where value can be delivered to GBM operationally and/or financially.
