Unity Mining Limited - Henty Gold Mine

The Henty Gold Mine is an underground gold mine that commenced operation in 1996 and is located in glaciated mountainous terrain in the upper Henty Valley on the West Coast of Tasmania, adjacent to the Southwest Conservation Area. The nearest main towns are Rosebery, 10 kilometres to the north, Zeehan, 19 kilometres to the west and Queenstown, 23 kilometres to the south. Henty lies within the mineral rich Mt. Read Volcanic Belt in Western Tasmania that hosts the Hellyer, Que River, Rosebery, Hercules and Mount Lyell base metal deposits. The eastern side of the belt is dominated by the Henty Fault which runs north-east for over 60 kilometres between Mount Charter and Mount Read. The Henty operation is based on a series of structurally complex high-grade zones of gold mineralisation that occur within a package of highly altered volcanic rock adjacent to the Henty Fault. Access from surface to the series of orebodies at Henty is via shaft and decline, linked to a common portal e...