region, with Westgold mines located at Fortnum, Meekatharra (Bluebird) and Cue (Big Bell) Westgold was incorporated in
Western Australia on 27 July 1987 and listed on the
Australian Securities Exchange. The company underwent a number of name changes in its early years, originally being formed as Jenwood Resources NL, becoming Poverty Gold NL in April 1990, Gold and Resource Holdings NL in August 1993, Westgold Resources NL in January 1994 and Westgold Resources Limited in January 2008. Metals X acquired a 27 per cent interest in Westgold in 2006. In May 2011, Westgold merged with Aragon Resources Limited, which owned a number of non-operational gold mining assets in the Murchison Goldfields, among them the historic
Big Bell Gold Mine. Historically, the gold tenements Aragon brought to the merger had produced 5 million
ounces of gold. and de-listed the company from the ASX but maintained it as a subsidiary. In October 2013, Westgold purchased the Australian gold assets of Alacer Gold Corporation, thereby acquiring the operational
South Kalgoorlie Gold Mine and the
Higginsville Gold Mine, thereby becoming a gold producing company. The South Kalgoorlie remained with Westgold after the de-merger, but the company sold the mine in March 2018 for A$80 million to
Northern Star Resources, of which A$20 minion was paid in cash and the remainder in shares. The Higginsville mine was sold in June 2019 to Canadian company RNC Minerals for A$50 million, half of which was paid in cash and the remainder in shares. RNC Minerals, at the time, already owned the nearby
Beta Hunt Mine. In June 2014, Westgold acquired the Meekatharra Gold Operation, centered around the
Bluebird Gold Mine, from the administrators of GMK Exploration, recommencing mining at
Meekatharra in June 2015. On 1 August 2024, Westgold and Karora Resources merged. Westgold became a
dual listed company with a listing on the
Toronto Stock Exchange. == Operations and production ==