Lihir Gold Limited (LGL) is a major global gold producer with operations in Papua New Guinea (PNG), West Africa and Australia.

The company operates one of the world’s largest gold mines and processing facilities on the island of Lihir, 900 kilometres north-east of Port Moresby in New Ireland province of Papua New Guinea.

In June 2008, LGL finalised a merger with Perth-based gold producer Equigold NL. Through the merger, LGL now has operations at Mount Rawdon in Queensland and in Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa. The company is also actively exploring in Côte d’Ivoire, where it has over 20,000 square kilometres of exploration licences either granted or under application in the highly prospective Birimian greenstone belts.

LGL initiated a sale process for the Ballarat gold mine in Victoria after completing a review of the project in the first half of 2009. The review concluded that despite encouraging results from ongoing exploration activities in the north of the Ballarat gold field, the project would be unlikely to achieve the scale required to fit within the LGL portfolio. The sale process is expected to be completed early in 2010.

Combined from its four operations, LGL has more than 30 million ounces in reserves.  In 2009 LGL produced 1.12 million ounces of gold, with production in 2010 forecast to be between 960,000 ounces and 1.06 million ounces.

Click here for more information on the Lihir Island, Mt Rawdon, Bonikro and Ballarat operations or download our fact sheets:

 Lihir Island Fact Sheet (304 KB)
 Côte d'Ivoire Fact Sheet - English (2.6 MB)
 Côte d'Ivoire Fact Sheet - French (2.6 MB)
 Bonikro Fact Sheet (233 KB)
 Mt Rawdon Fact Sheet (378 KB)
 How Gold Is Produced Fact Sheet (489 KB)