Focus Minerals Limited (ASX:FML) is a leading Australian gold producer operating two significant production centres in Western Australia s Eastern Goldfields. The company is the largest landholder in the Coolgardie Gold Belt, 35km west of Super Pit in Kalgoorlie, where it operates 3 mines: The Tindals Underground; Tindals Open Pits; and The Mount underground. Gold is processed at Focus 1.2Mtpa processing plant, Three Mile Hill, which is adjacent to the town of Coolgardie. Focus also operates, through its 81.57% majority shareholding in Crescent Gold, the Laverton Gold Project, located 250km northeast of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Laverton comprises a significant portfolio of large scale open pit mines, with ore being processed under an OPA at the nearby Barrick Granny Smith mill.
Five young men, enrollees of the 196 Company, Civilian Conservation Corps, who were killed in a truck accident on Dec. 16, 1934, will be remembered during a memorial ceremony on