The Boddington Gold Mine (BGM) is located 130 km southeast of Perth in Western Australia. The original oxide gold mine ceased operations in 2001. The mine is owned by Newmont 66.67% and AngloGold Ashanti 33.33%. The BGM Expansion Project relates to the mining and processing of basement rock from underneath the existing BGM oxide pits. The Expansion Project includes open cut mining from two large open pits. It requires the construction of a new processing plant which will include a three-stage crushing circuit, single stage grinding, copper-gold flotation and gold leaching of the flotation residue by the carbon-in-leach (CIL) process.

A 1000 person accommodation village is planned to accommodate the bulk of the construction workers during the construction period with occupancy to be phased down after construction. Construction is expected to start in the second quarter of 2006. The capital expenditure for the project is between $ 1.8 and $2.0 billion.

A joint venture between Aker Kvaerner, Clough Murray and Roberts (AKCMR) was selected as the EPCM contractor. The project will take approximately 2.5 years to construct with first production planned for late 2008.