A fly-in, fly-out worker who was accused of being at fault for the loss of $200,000 worth of gold at a WA mine site has been awarded more than $30,000 after the Fair Work Commission found she was unfairly dismissed.

Perth Jamie-Lee Corless-Crane had worked as a pit technician for Aurenne Group Mining in Mt Ida for 15 months before the incident on January 7.

The gold was lost when three long-term geology department workers marked the wrong mining location, and so the gold from the wrongly marked location was taken to waste instead of being processed.

Aurenne claimed Ms Corless-Crane’s failure to check a dig site against a map she had been given led to 54 ounces of gold being discarded.

Ms Corless-Crane was immediately stood down and an investigation was launched.

A week later, she rece

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