Severe Australian Cyclone Set to Dump Rain on Big Gold Mine
- Newcrest has reduced onsite staffing level at Telfer operation
- Ilsa expected to cross the coast late Thursday or early Friday
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Newcrest Mining Ltd.’s Telfer gold mine is expected to get a deluge of heavy rain later this week after the biggest cyclone to hit the Western Australian coast in almost a decade makes landfall.
Severe tropical cyclone Ilsa is currently 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of Port Hedland and is forecast to cross the coast late Thursday or early Friday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. The storm will maintain cyclone intensity as it tracks past Telfer and further inland, it said.