Tropicana Goldmine is one of Civiltest's most remote projects
The Tropicana Goldmine, one of the most remote projects that Civiltest has undertaken, located 330 kilometres North East of Kalgoorlie. The Tropicana joint venture in Western Australia between AngloGold Ashanti Australia Ltd and Independence Group NL, with Civilitest engaged by Watpac to perform various tests on the project.
Our team tell the story of the initial drive into the site location via a rough desert track. It was a full day’s drive that required a check-in every 2 hours at certain marker points to ensure that the team were on the correct path. Initially, the exploration camp where Civiltest were based had no phone, internet, radio or television. Fly in, fly out was via a small dirt airstrip being the only connection.
Civiltest’s involvement with the Tropicana Goldmine included the airstrip, plant construction, permanent camp and access roads. Our onsite annex laboratory provided the capability of providing CBR testing to our client Watpac. Civiltest were and continue to be one of a select number of NATA accredited facilities to offer onsite Annex Laboratory based CBR testing.
Majority of our annex projects interstate involve transporting all required equipment to the site until the project is completed, with all equipment returned to our laboratory base at completion.