Murchison explorers have a clear path to gold production - Stockhead

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Western Australia’s Murchison is emerging as a clearer gold-production hub now that water, processing and transport bottlenecks have largely eased, with nearby mills and infrastructure allowing juniors to fast-track projects via toll treatment rather than build standalone plants. The article highlights existing and planned output from Westgold and Ramelius above 1Moz/yr combined toward the end of the decade, alongside several juniors moving from drilling to production studies.

New Murchison Gold is already generating cash: it reported nine-month after-tax profit of $146.95m on revenue of $272m to June 30, 2026, after first ore sales in September 2025, and has added a second open pit at Cloudkicker. Other names cited include Great Boulder’s Peak Hill resource of 481,000oz at 1.6g/t with production targeted for Q4 2027, and Horizon Gold’s Gum Creek reserve of 18.2Mt at 1.24g/t (728,000oz) with a DFS showing a pre-tax NPV of $1.3bn and IRR of 53.1% on $350m capex.