The Endeavor Mine is a major underground zinc/lead/silver mining operation in central New South Wales, 46 kilometres north of the town of Cobar and 700 kilometres from Sydney.

Operations commenced in 1983 and comprise an underground mine accessed by both decline and haulage shaft, serviced by a concentrator, drying, storage and rail facilities.

CBH has upgraded the mine to establish capacity of greater than of 1.2 Mtpa.  An important phase of the upgrade was the installation of a pastefill plant to achieve a mine life of more than 10 years through the extraction of pillars as well as primary stopes.

The processing plant has been undergoing progressive upgrade and improvements to circuits and can now support a through put rate of 1.4 Mtpa.

Production performance is reported in the company’s quarterly reports.

Currently production has been reduced in order to lower costs and maintain viability of the mine at low metal prices for zinc and lead.