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Lake Disappointment Potash Project

Project
Proponent: 
Reward Minerals
Proposal description: 

Reward Minerals propose to develop the Lake Disappointment Potash Project (located approximately 320 km east of Newman). The proposal is to abstract brine from sediments and use solar evaporation ponds on the surface of the lake to create the potash product. The proposal would disturb 7,250 ha of land which includes 437 ha of vegetation, with the remainder of disturbance to the surface of Lake Disappointment.

Assessment Number: 
2087
Region: 
Pilbara
Referred under EP Act: 
s38
Industry sector: 
Salt
Last updated: 
December 18, 2024
Current Status: 
Ministerial Statement withdrawn under s.47A
1. Referral
Comment on this referral: 
Lake Disappointment Potash Project
Comment period: 
Wednesday, 29 June, 2016 to Tuesday, 5 July, 2016
Referral documentation: 
PDF icon Referral Document - Lake Disappointment Potash Project
PDF icon Figure 1 - Tenements
PDF icon Figure 2 - Lake Arrangement
PDF icon Figure 3 - Playa Vegetation
PDF icon Figure 4 - Location Plan
PDF icon Figure 5 - Layout
PDF icon Figure 6 - Talawana Clearing
PDF icon Figure 7 - Martu and Environmental Areas
2. Decision on whether to assess this proposal
Chair's Determination: 
Assess - Public Environmental Review
Extract of determination: 
PDF icon Chairman's Determination - Lake Disappointment Potash Project
Preliminary Environmental Factors: 
Social Surroundings
Flora and Vegetation
Subterranean Fauna
Terrestrial Fauna
Hydrological Processes
Inland Waters Environmental Quality
Date published: 
Monday, 18 July, 2016
3. Assessment
Scoping
Environmental scoping document: 
PDF icon Environmental Scoping Document - Lake Disappointment Potash Project
Approved: 
Tuesday, 25 October, 2016
Environmental Review
Public submissions: 
Monday, 4 February, 2019 to Monday, 18 March, 2019
Make a submission: 
Lake Disappointment Potash Project - Public Environmental Review
Environmental Review documentation: 
PDF icon Environmental Review Document.pdf
PDF icon Appendix A - Environmental Scoping Document.pdf
PDF icon Appendix C - Stakeholder consultation register to 31 October 2018.pdf
PDF icon Appendix D1_Appendix 6-Quadrat Datasheets.pdf
PDF icon Appendix D1_Appendix 7-Quadrat Photographs.pdf
PDF icon Appendix D1_Lake Disappointment Level 2 Flora Report FINAL V2.pdf
PDF icon Appendix D2_Flora and Vegetation Impact Assessment_Lake Disappointment FINAL.pdf
PDF icon Appendix D3_FINAL Tecticornia Soil Assessment_20170519.pdf
PDF icon Appendix D4_Botanica_Riparian veg monitoring Final 2015.pdf
PDF icon Appendix D5_Botanica_Sand dune veg monitoring Final 2015.pdf
PDF icon Appendix D6_Hydrobiology_GDE spectral data analysis memo 20170815_v4.pdf
PDF icon Appendix E1 Fauna Impact Assessment - Please contact us for the full document - File too large for upload.pdf
PDF icon Appendix E2 Night Parrot Survey Report
PDF icon Appendix E3 Consolidation Report - Short-Range Endemic Invertebrates.pdf
PDF icon Appendix E4 Fauna Survey Report.pdf
PDF icon Appendix E5 Conservation Significant Vertebrate Fauna Assessment Talawana Track.pdf
PDF icon Appendix E6 Aquatic Ecology and Waterbirds Addition Studies.pdf
PDF icon Appendix E7 Ecological Character of Lake Disappointment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix E8 Marsupial Mole Monitoring Survey.pdf
PDF icon Appendix E9 Fauna Survey Access Track and Camp Site.pdf
PDF icon Appendix F1 Stygofauna Values.pdf
PDF icon Appendix F2 Subterranean Fauna Desktop Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix F3 Stygofauna Survey Level 1.pdf
PDF icon Appendix F4 Subfauna IDs.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G1 Technical Review July 2018.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G2 Acis Sulfate Soil Investigation May 2016.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G3 Riparian Zone Monitoring.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G4 Brine Sample Locations and Lab Results July & Aug 2016.PDF
PDF icon Appendix G5 MBO Lab Report and Sample Location Plan Sept2016.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G6 Lab Results and Map Sediment and Water From Trial Trench April 2018.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G7 Ecotoxicity Hazard Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G8 KP Salt Dissolution.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G9 Bore field coordinates.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G9 Bore field water quality_July2017.PDF
PDF icon Appendix G9 Bore field water quality_June2017.PDF
PDF icon Appendix G9 Bore field water quality_May2016.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G9 Bore field water quality_Oct 2016.PDF
PDF icon Appendix G9 Borefield water quality_November2016.PDF
PDF icon Appendix G9 Cory bore field water quality summary.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G9 Field Chemistry Data Northern Borefield.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G9 Northern bore field water quality summary.pdf
PDF icon Appendix G10 Pendragon Memorandum Geotechnical Review.pdf
PDF icon Appendix H Hydrological Investigation.pdf
PDF icon Appendix H1 Pond Persistence Modelling.pdf
PDF icon Appendix H2 Hydrobiology Flooding 2017.pdf
PDF icon Appendix H3 KP Surface Hydrology.pdf
PDF icon Appendix H4 Pendragon Hydrological Investigation.pdf
PDF icon Appendix I1 Hydrogeology Review Project.pdf
PDF icon Appendix I2 Hydrogeological Review Borefields Sept 2018.pdf
PDF icon Appendix I3 Cory Bore Field Hydrogeological Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix I4 Northern Bore Field Hydrogeological Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix I5 Hydrogeological Assessment Global Groundwater.pdf
PDF icon Appendix I6 Cory Borefield Groundwater Operating Strategy Jan 2018.pdf
PDF icon Appendix I7 Northern Borefield Groundwater Operating Strategy March 2018.pdf
PDF icon Appendix J1 Land Use Agreement RegisterExport.pdf
PDF icon Appendix J2 Complete Description and Map of the Agreement Area.pdf
PDF icon Appendix K Mine Closure Plan.pdf
PDF icon Appendix L1 Reward Environment Policy.pdf
PDF icon Appendix L2 Potash Project Risk Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix L3 Stygofauna Management Plan.pdf
PDF icon Appendix L4 Fauna Management Plan.pdf
Date Published (Environmental Review documentation): 
February 4, 2019
Proponent response to submissions: 
PDF icon Lake Disappointment ERD Response to Public Submissions July 2019.pdf
PDF icon Lake Disappointment ERD further response to agency submissions 10 September 2019.pdf
Date published (Proponent response to submissions): 
November 27, 2019
4. EPA Report on assessment
EPA Report Number: 
1658
EPA Report: 
PDF icon EPA Report 1658 - Lake Disappointment Potash Project.pdf
Key Environmental Factors: 
Social Surroundings
Flora and Vegetation
Subterranean Fauna
Terrestrial Fauna
Inland Waters Environmental Quality
Date published: 
Monday, 9 December, 2019
Appeals close: 
Monday, 23 December, 2019
5. Decision on proposal and implementation of proposal
Withdrawal of Ministerial Statement
Notice of withdrawal of Ministerial Statement: 
PDF icon Notice to Withdraw Statement.pdf
Date withdrawn: 
Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
Ministerial Statement
Date of approval: 
Wednesday, 3 June, 2020
Ministerial Statement: 
PDF icon Ministerial Statement 1138

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