Goldstrike is located on the Carlin Trend, the most prolific gold mining district in the Western Hemisphere, about 60 kilometres northwest of Elko, Nevada, USA. The Goldstrike operations include the Betze-Post open pit and the Meikle and Rodeo underground mines. Goldstrike remains the Company’s largest gold producer.

The Betze-Post pit is a truck-and-shovel operation using large electric shovels.

The Meikle and Rodeo underground mines are located just north of the Betze-Post pit, along the same mineralized trend as the surface deposits. Meikle is a high-grade ore body that was discovered in 1989 and entered production in September 1996 using tranverse longhole stoping and underhand drift and fill mining methods. Rodeo is a further extension of the mineralization found at Goldstrike. It is a trackless operation, using two different underground mining methods: long-hole open stoping and drift-and-fill.

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The Goldstrike Property has two processing facilities: an autoclave circuit, which is used to treat the property’s non-carbonaceous sulfide (refractory) ore; and the roaster, used for treating carbonaceous ore (not suitable for autoclaving). These facilities treat the ore from both the surface and underground operations.

In 2008, the Goldstrike Property produced 1.71 million ounces of gold at average total cash costs of $452 per ounce¹. Goldstrike’s proven and probable mineral reserves as of December 31, 2008 are estimated at 12.8 million ounces of gold².