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Santana Minerals

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Santana Minerals is an Australian mineral exploration and development company focused on advancing precious metal assets. The company's primary flagship project is the Bendigo-Ophir Gold Project, situated in Central Otago, New Zealand, where it discovered a significant high-grade gold deposit. Santana Minerals aims to develop the site into a large-scale open-pit and underground gold mining operation. Its activities include extensive diamond drilling, resource expansion, environmental baseline studies, and technical evaluations to support mine development, regulatory approvals, and future gold production.

Snapshot

Public AUOwnership
2013Year founded
11–50Employees
Brisbane, AustraliaHead office
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Operations

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Brisbane, AU
Australia

Products and/or services of Santana Minerals

  • Gold Deposit Exploration: Exploration and resource delineation across high-grade shear-hosted gold mineralisation zones in Central Otago, New Zealand, targeting multi-million-ounce JORC-compliant mineral resource estimates through systematic surface diamond and reverse circulation drilling campaigns.
  • Mine Development Planning: Pre-feasibility engineering studies and economic evaluations for combined open-pit and underground gold mining operations in New Zealand, targeting an initial annual production rate exceeding 120,000 ounces of recovered gold bullion over a multi-year mine life.
  • Gold Processing Design: Development of metallurgical flowsheets and processing plant infrastructure, incorporating conventional crushing, grinding, gravity separation, and carbon-in-leach recovery circuits designed to maximize gold extraction rates from regional shear-zone ores.
  • Regulatory Permitting: Regulatory coordination and environmental baseline assessments under specialized national fast-track approval legislation in New Zealand, facilitating resource consent applications, environmental management plans, and land access arrangements for mine construction.
  • Regional Target Generation: Regional target generation and geophysical survey programs across surrounding mineral exploration tenements, identifying prospective structural corridors and geochemical anomalies to discover satellite gold deposits and extend mine life.
  • Community Infrastructure Support: Operational readiness programs and local community engagement initiatives focused on establishing regional infrastructure, local employment opportunities, regional contractor procurement, and workforce training facilities to support mine construction and long-term mineral extraction.

Santana Minerals executive team

  • Mr. Damian SpringCEO & Executive Director
  • Mr. Craig John McPherson B.Com., CACorporate Secretary & CFO
  • Mr. Samuel Smith M.B.A.Executive Director of Corporate Affairs & Investor Relations and Executive Director
  • Mr. Alex NicholGeology Manager