As Newcrest Mining Ltd prepares to again reopen the massive Telfer copper/ gold project in Western Australia's north-west, and the company struggles with political risk issues at its Toguraci gold mine in Indonesia, the company must look fondly on the reliable workhorses it controls at its Cadia Valley operations, near Orange in New South Wales. The low-cost Ridgeway mine is Newcrest's golden child. Just two years into a projected decade of mine life, the svelte sublevel caving operation sits in sharp contrast to its neighbour, the lumbering and expensive Cadia Hill mine.
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