KING OF THE HILLS

King of the Hills Gold Mine and Processing Hub

Red 5’s 100%-owned King of the Hills Gold Mine is located 28km north of the town of Leonora and 80km south of the Company’s Darlot Satellite Gold Mine in the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia.

Red 5 has established the new King of the Hills Processing Hub in 2022, with a large new 4.7Mtpa process plant being fed by open pit and underground mines at King of the Hills, and an underground satellite mine at Darlot.

Quick Facts: King of the Hills

Location

Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia, 28km north of the township of Leonora.

Ownership

100% Red 5 Limited

Land Area

156km² combined mine license

215km² combined exploration land package

Planned Production June Quarter 2022

Planned processing plant

4.7Mtpa carbon in leach plant (with flexibility to expand >6Mtpa)

Mining Method

Open Pit and Underground mining from main deposit, supported by 3 satellite pits over 16 year life of mine

Geology

Situated on the eastern contact of an Archaean granodiorite pluton with overlying Archaean supracrustal greenstone rocks of the Leonora Domain.

The key geological feature of the KOTH deposit is a large felsic granitoid known as the Tarmoola Intrusion, emplaced into the volcano-sedimentary pile prior to mineralisation.