The Sandvik team in east Indonesia have delivered a new underground load and haul fleet of four TH545i trucks and a LH514 loader to PT Nusa Halmahera Minerals’s (PTNHM) Gosowong gold/silver mining complex in North Halmahera Regency, Halmahera Island in North Maluku province. The new fleet will replace Gosowong’s articulated dump trucks (ADTs) to more efficiently move ore from underground to the surface stockpile, improving productivity, safety and costs. The Gosowong gold mine currently includes the Kencana and Toguraci underground mines.

In March 2020, Newcrest sold 100% of Newcrest Singapore Holdings Pte (NSH) to Indotan Halmahera Bangkit (Indotan) for A$90m. NSH owned 75% of PT Nusa Halmahera Minerals (PT NHM), which operates the Gosowong mine in Indonesia. The remainder is held by PT Aneka Tambang.

Newcrest and PT Antam originally formed a joint venture in 1994 to search for gold content on Halmahera Island. In the same year, the joint venture found gold in Gosowong. Then, in 1997, Newcrest and PT Antam established PTNHM, followed by making a Contract of Work between the Government of Indonesia and PTNHM that was signed on April 28, 1997. The first gold from Gosowong was produced in July 1999.