Cadia’s water woes alleviated

Gold miner Newcrest Mining on Wednesday assured shareholders that its Cadia operation, in New South Wales, would have sufficient water to ensure that production was not constrained by a water shortage, for at least the next two years.

Previous internal modeling had indicated that if rainfall had remained at 1-in-100 year lows, as it had been for the last two years, gold production at Cadia could have been impacted by water shortages early in calendar year 2021.