Southern Cross Gold Consolidated advises that PYBAR Mining Companies Pty Ltd, a Thiess firm, has been awarded the underground exploration decline contract for the corporate’s Sunday Creek Gold-Antimony Venture, 60 kilometres north of Melbourne, Victoria. The award follows the Assets Victoria Work Plan approval obtained in November 2025 and Premier Jacinta Allan’s public endorsement of the undertaking as a vital minerals jobs alternative for Victoria.
Michael Hudson, President & CEO states: “The Allan Labor Authorities accepted our exploration decline on 27 November 2025. Within the 5 months since, we’ve got been establishing the floor infrastructure and secured the secondary consents required to begin underground mining. With these in place, we’re
happy to verify the award of the decline contract to PYBAR.”
He provides: “The decline is essentially about accelerating drilling. Underground platforms 115 metres beneath floor scale us from the 11 floor rigs working right this moment to 24 rigs working concurrently from underground positions, positioning Sunday Creek as one of many largest pre-development drill-outs globally. With the PYBAR contract awarded, and Shane Leary and Ben Edwards onboard, we’ve got the contractor and the operational management in place to look ahead to year-end decline completion and important elevated drilling capability for this thrilling gold and antimony discovery.”
The contract covers main and secondary floor help set up of the field reduce, portal institution and first decline growth along with related providers and infrastructure, and preliminary lateral growth. Scope features a field reduce of roughly 15 metres depth, a main 5.5 m large x 6 m excessive
decline of roughly 680 metres reaching a vertical depth of roughly 115 metres, and 1,200 metres of lateral growth to ascertain the preliminary drilling platforms. The preliminary time period is 7 months. PYBAR was chosen following a aggressive tender course of assessing technical functionality, security report, supply
schedule and worth.
The decline is being constructed primarily to speed up drilling. Establishing underground drill platforms unlocks the scale-up from the 11 floor rigs working right this moment to 24 rigs working concurrently, positioning Sunday Creek as one of many largest pre-development drill-outs globally. Underground drilling delivers shorter, extra correct holes into mineralisation, and materially improves productiveness per metre.
