The ABC has been given rare access underground in one of Cobar's four mines, as it looks to secure its future with the world's most precious resource — water
And it could be cut completely, even before Burrendong runs dry, according to Neil Valk, the general manager of Peak Gold Mine.
Aurelia Metals, which owns the mine, is urgently looking for alternatives in the place it knows best: below ground, in the flooded tunnels and shafts of the historic Great Cobar mine. Once Australia's biggest copper mine, it closed 100 years ago. Water has since seeped into and filled its old workings, like an underground dam.
With its government approvals just finalised, Peak is now in a race against time to install a pump at the old mine to extract and pipe the water to its current operations.
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