The Central Norseman gold mine is located at Norseman, Western Australia. Norseman lies at the southern end of the Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belt, in the Eastern Goldfields Province of the Yilgarn Block, Western Australia. The mine is owned by an unincorporated 50/50 joint venture between Tulla Resources, formerly Norseman Gold, and Pantoro Limited and operated by Pantoro. Until its closure in 2014 it was Australia's longest continuously running gold mining operation, producing approximately six million ounces from its opening in 1935. History Gold was first discovered in the district in 1892 at Dundas, 22 km south of present-day Norseman. This was followed on 11 August 1894 by a gold discovery at Dundas Hills at the site of the future town of Norseman by Lawrence Sinclair, his brother George Sinclair and Jack Alsopp who were following up specks of alluvial gold found in a small gully. The discovery claim was initially named the Dundas Reward, and renamed The Norseman, after Sinclair's horse Hardy Norseman. The Sinclair family came to Western Australia in December 1863 from the Shetland Isles. In 1935, a new era of mining began for the town, when Western Mining Corporation arrived in the region and invested in its infrastructure. Operated by Central Norseman Gold Corporation Ltd, a subsidiary of Western Mining, the mine became effectively owned by Croesus Mining NL in February 2002, when Croesus purchased WMC's 50.5% share of the company for A$75 million. Croesus Mining went into administration in June 2006, after gold production levels at Norseman fell short of hedging commitments. The mine was operated by Central Norseman Gold until April 2007, when it passed into the ownership of Davos Gold Pty Ltd, now Norseman Gold, who purchased it for a sum in excess of A$60 million. Central Norseman gold mine had been in administration for eleven months at the time of the sale. The mine was an underground mining operation, first from the Phoenix Shaft on the Mararoa Reef, then on the Crown Reef from the Regent Shaft on the north end of the Mararoa and further north at the North Royal Mine and finally with two declines being mined, Bullen and Harlequin. A third decline, the OK, commenced production in 2010. Gold mining operations at closure in 2014 included the Bullen and Harlequin mines and the Phoenix Mill. In July 2019, Pantoro Limited acquired 50 percent of the mine from Norseman Gold for A$50