Boddington Gold Mine (BGM) is a large open cut mine located 120 kilometres southeast of Perth. Production at the mine ceased in November 2001 and the site has been in a care and maintenance phase since that time.

The history of the gold mine dates back to mid 1980 when gold was first discovered by Reynolds Australia Mining on behalf of the Worsley Joint Venture.

Mining commenced in 1987 at a design rate of 3 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa). Further increases in production continued and by 1996 the production rate was 8.6Mtpa.

In November 1998 BGM acquired the Hedges Gold Mine leases located adjacent to the BGM operations. Over the life of the operation, 105 million tonnes of ore was processed, producing 4,740,000 ounces of gold.

The BGM Expansion Project relates to the mining and processing of a large basement resource from underneath the existing BGM oxide pits. Investigations into the possibility of large-scale mining of basement ore at BGM first began in 1995 with an updated feasibility study being completed at the end of 2005. A decision to proceed with the development of the BGM Expansion project was announced in March 2006.
BGM is an active community partner and supporter of community projects and local businesses.

BGM is owned by two joint venture parners - Newmont Australia Pty Ltd (66.67%) and AngloGold Ashanti Australia Limited (33.33%). In March 2006, Newmont acquired Newcrest’s 22.2% interest.