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Covalent Lithium Hydroxide Refinery

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The proposal is for the construction and operation of a Lithium Hydroxide Refinery at Lot 15 Mason Road, Kwinana within the Kwinana Industrial Area, approximately 31 km south of the Perth Central Business District. The Proposal will process spodumene ore concentrate, to produce battery grade Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate, primarily for use in Lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles. The proposal would require a total of 11.2 hectares of native vegetation clearing within a 76 hectare... Read more...

Albemarle Kemerton Plant

Last updated: November 25, 2024

Albemarle Lithium Pty Ltd (Albemarle) is proposing to stablish the Albemarle Kemerton Plant, a Lithium hydroxide Product manufacturing plant and associated infrastructure, within the Kemerton Strategic Industrial Area (KSIA), approximately 17 kilometres north-east of Bunbury. The Albemarle Kemerton Plant will produce up to 100,000 tonne per annum (tpa) of lithium hydroxide monohydrate (Lithium Hydroxide Product) from five 20,000 tpa process trains and produce up to 1,100,000 tpa of tailings.... Read more...

Wingellina Nickel Project

Last updated: November 25, 2024

Hinckley Range Pty Ltd proposes to mine nickeliferous limonite ore from the Wingellina deposit located approximately 1,400 km north-east of Perth in the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku close to the Northern Territory and South Australia borders Read more...

Gorgon Gas Development Revised and Expanded Proposal: Barrow Island Nature Reserve

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The construction of facilities for the development of the Greater Gorgon Gas Fields on the North-West Shelf, and the processing and export of the gas at a liquefied natural gas plant to be constructed on Barrow Island. Read more...

Murrin Murrin Nickel-Cobalt Project Stage 2 Expansion

Last updated: April 24, 2024

The proposal is for the Stage 2 expansion of the Murrin Murrin Nickel-Cobalt mining and processing operation (Stage 1), 60 kilometres east of Leonora. The Stage 2 expansion includes the mining of additional ore; an expansion of the processing plant to process additional ore; and the development of additional infrastructure associated with mining and processing of the ore. Read more...

Cloudbreak Life of Mine Expansion

Last updated: February 9, 2024

The proposal includes the existing Cloudbreak iron ore mine and proposed expansion. The existing mine includes open pit strip mining, backfilling of pits, progressive rehabilitation and ore processing. The expansion includes increasing ore production, development of new pits and permanent waste landforms, the development of new infrastructure, additional dewatering and water disposal activities, an upgrade of the ore processing facility. Read more...

BHP Billiton Iron Ore - Pilbara Strategic Proposal

Last updated: February 5, 2024

BHP Billiton Iron Ore has prepared a Strategic Proposal of its future operations in the Pilbara for the next 50 to 100 years. The Strategic Proposal will facilitate a more holistic and longer term view of mining activities in the Pilbara region by identifying and assessing how impacts to the environment at a landscape scale will be managed. Read more...

Resource Recovery Facility, Red Hill

Last updated: November 14, 2023

The proposal is to construct and operate a resource recovery facility within the existing Red Hill Waste Management Facility, City of Swan, for the processing of waste to produce energy, using either anaerobic digestion technology or gasification technology. Read more...

Eliwana Iron Ore Mine

Last updated: November 6, 2023

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd proposes to develop the Eliwana Mine Project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Eliwana Mine Project Area is located approximately 90 km west-northwest of Tom Price. Over the life of the mine, the average annual production rate is estimated at 30 Mtpa but infrastructure will be constructed to reflect peaks in the annual production rate up to 50 Mtpa. The estimated mine life is 24 years. The proposal involves the clearing of up to 8,560 ha of native... Read more...

Keysbrook Mineral Sands Mine

Last updated: September 18, 2023

The proposal involves the excavation and processing of a low-grade (2.7%) heavy mineral sands deposit near Keysbrook to produce 920,000 tonnes of Heavy Mineral Concentrate (HMC) over 8 years. An area of 30 hectares (ha) would be progressively mined at any time. Topsoil would be removed and stockpiled for use in rehabilitation. The ore would be excavated and unloaded into a dump hopper located on the pit floor. The ore would be conveyed to a screening plant where oversize material would be... Read more...

Manuwarra Red Dog Highway – Revised Proposal

Last updated: July 4, 2023

In 1998 Main Roads Western Australia (Main Roads) referred Stages 2, 3 and 4 of the Karratha – Tom Price Road, now called the Manuwarra Red Dog Highway (the Original Proposal), to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). The EPA assessed the Original Proposal and published EPA Report 1159. Ministerial Statement (MS) 677 was published in 2005. Construction of Stage 2 was completed in 2008. Stage 3 of the Original Proposal is currently under construction and is expected to be completed in... Read more...

Lynas Kalgoorlie Rare Earths Processing Facility

Last updated: February 1, 2022

Lynas Kalgoorlie Pty Ltd (Lynas) propose to construct and operate a new Rare Earths Processing Facility at Lot 500 Great Eastern Highway, Yilkari and a By-product storage facility on Common Reserve 8767, Yarri Road, Parkerston in the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. The Rare Earths Processing Facility will process rare earth concentrate from the Mt Weld mine to produce a rare earth carbonate for export. Read more...

Southern Extension of Sandpit, Lot 2 Calinup Road, Gelorup, Shire of Capel

Last updated: January 31, 2022

APH Contractors proposes to extract approximately 2.2 million bank cubic metres of sand from 22.87 hectares over a period of 20 years at an annual extraction rate of 100,000 – 120,000 tonnes per year. Sand will be extracted to a maximum depth of 20m Australian Height Datum (AHD). It is proposed that sand extraction will continue from east of Gelorup Hill and move progressively southwards in 18 sand extraction blocks, each between one and two hectares. Embankments will be restored to 1:4 (14o)... Read more...

330MW Gas-Fired Power Station, Neerabup (s46) [2239]

Last updated: November 25, 2021

Changes to condition 5 (relating to performance review), condition 9 (relating to stack emissions), and condition 11 (relating to decommissioning), in order to contemporise the conditions of the Statement and streamline its regulatory obligations. Read more...

Devil Creek Gas Development Project

Last updated: September 1, 2021

The proposal is for the construction and operation of a gas processing plant, onshore supply gas pipeline, onshore sales gas pipeline, and horizontal directionally drilled shore crossing. Read more...

Sino Iron Mine Continuation Proposal

Last updated: September 1, 2021

The proposal is an expansion of the existing Sino Iron Project approved under Ministerial Statement 635 (as amended). The proposal is required to accommodate continuation of mine operations associated with the existing two billion tonnes mining rights afforded to Sino Iron and Korean Steel in accordance with existing commercial agreements. It includes the expansion of the mine pit, waste dumps and Tailings Storage Facilities. The proposed mine pit expansion will increase in depth from 220 m to... Read more...

Silicon Project, Kemerton and Mine at Moora - Revised Proposal

Last updated: August 9, 2021

The original proposal is for mining of silica (quartzite) rock approximately 15 kilometres north of Moora on Mining Lease M70/191, and smelting to produce silicon, employing wood, charcoal, coal and the silica mined at Moora, in the Kemerton Industrial Area approximately 20 kilometres north of Bunbury in the Shire of Harvey. This revised proposal is for an increase from the approved three submerged electric arc furnaces to four submerged electric arc furnaces at the Kemerton site, and the... Read more...

Boonanarring Mineral Sands Mine

Last updated: June 24, 2021

Open cut dry mining of mineral sands and the processing of mined material through primary and secondary concentration plants and dry minerals separation. It includes the construction and operation of associated infrastructure and a modification to the intersection of Brand Hwy with Wannamal Road West. Read more...

Lake Way Sulphate of Potash Project

Last updated: April 28, 2021

Salt Lake Potash Limited propose to abstract Sulphate of Potash (SOP) rich brines to produce up to 260 kilotonnes per annum (ktpa) of SOP product. The proposal is located in and around Lake Way, approximately 25 kilometres south of Wiluna. The activities and infrastructure proposed includes evaporation ponds, brine abstraction trenches, paleochannel brine production bores, permanent brine pumps/pipework, access and infrastructure corridors and excess salt disposal areas. The proposal will cover... Read more...

West Angelas Iron Ore Project Deposits C, D and G

Last updated: April 16, 2021

Robe River Mining Co. proposes to develop the West Angelas C, D and G iron ore deposits to sustain production at the existing West Angelas iron ore operations. The proposal is located approximately 130 km northwest of Newman.   Mining of the C, D and G iron ore deposits will involve the additional clearing of up to 4,310 ha of native vegetation within a mine development envelope of 26,400 ha. Mine dewatering will be required to accommodate below water table mining, requiring an additional  ... Read more...

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