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Ravensthorpe Gold Project

Project
Proponent: 
ACH Minerals Pty Ltd
Proposal description: 

ACH Minerals proposes to develop the Kundip Mine Site located approximately 17 km south-east of Ravensthorpe in the Shire of Ravensthorpe. The proposal involves the development and operation of a gold and copper mine including open cut and underground mining, processing facilities, waste rock landforms, a tailings storage facility and associated infrastructure.

The project will have an 8 year mine life and a disturbance area of 244.7 hectares including 197.8 hectares of native vegetation within a development envelope of 428.4 hectares.

Assessment Number: 
2117
Region: 
Great Southern
Referred under EP Act: 
s38
Industry sector: 
Copper
Gold
Last updated: 
July 21, 2020
Current Status: 
Ministerial Statement published
Ministerial Statement published
1. Referral
Comment on this referral: 
Ravensthorpe Gold Copper Project
Comment period: 
Monday, 16 January, 2017 to Sunday, 22 January, 2017
Referral documentation: 
Referral Form (PDF, 1.09 MB)
Supporting document to the referral form (PDF, 14.8 MB)
Appendix 1 - Kundip Waste Landform and TSF Design Concept (PDF, 2.73 MB)
Appendix 2 - Capital and Operating Cost Estimate (PDF, 417.34 KB)
Appendix 3 - Water Storage Facility Design (PDF, 5.6 MB)
Appendix 4 - Groundwater Assessment Kundip (PDF, 2.36 MB)
Appendix 5 - Geotechnical Assessment for an Evaporation Pond Myamba (PDF, 253.77 KB)
Appendix 6 - Biological Survey (PDF, 21.31 MB)
Appendix 7 - Phytophthora Dieback Assessment Kundip (PDF, 7.17 MB)
Appendix 8 - Geochemical Characterisation of Mine Waste (PDF, 4.95 MB)
Appendix 9 - Geochemical Characterisation of Process-Tailings-Slurry (PDF, 1.82 MB)
Appendix 10 - Characterisation of Mine Waste (PDF, 3.53 MB)
Appendix 11 - Characterisation of Waste Regolith (PDF, 1.47 MB)
Appendix 12 - Characterisation of Regolith Materials (PDF, 2.81 MB)
Appendix 13 - Geotechnical Assessment of Kundip Mine Site (PDF, 9.12 MB)
Appendix 14 - Geotechnical Assessment of the Myamba Mine Site (PDF, 3.77 MB)
Appendix 15 - Characterisation of Topsoils (PDF, 1.59 MB)
Appendix 16 - Surface Water Assessment Kundip (PDF, 13.89 MB)
Appendix 17 - Surface Water Assessment Myamba (PDF, 10.16 MB)
Appendix 18 - Groundwater Assessment Myamba (PDF, 3.56 MB)
Appendix 19 - Dust Monitoring Kundip (PDF, 823.75 KB)
Appendix 20 - Aboriginal Heritage Inquiry Search (PDF, 6.82 MB)
Appendix 21 - Ethnographic Survey Report (PDF, 5.22 MB)
Appendix 22 - Stakeholder Engagement (PDF, 11.42 MB)
Appendix 23 - Proposed Disturbance to Vegetation Associations (PDF, 494.7 KB)
2. Decision on whether to assess this proposal
Chairman's Determination: 
Assess - Public Environmental Review
Extract of determination: 
Chairman's Determination - Ravensthorpe Gold Copper Project (PDF, 188.98 KB)
Preliminary Environmental Factors: 
Flora and Vegetation
Terrestrial Environmental Quality
Terrestrial Fauna
Hydrological Processes
Inland Waters Environmental Quality
Date published: 
Monday, 27 March, 2017
3. Assessment
Scoping
Environmental scoping document: 
CMS16331 - Ravensthorpe Gold Project - Final ESD (PDF, 2.93 MB)
Approved: 
Monday, 26 February, 2018
Environmental Review
Public submissions: 
Tuesday, 1 October, 2019 to Tuesday, 29 October, 2019
Make a submission: 
Ravensthorpe Gold Project - Public Environmental Review
Environmental Review documentation: 
Environmental Review Document FINAL August 2019.pdf (PDF, 37.31 MB)
App A - Environmmental Scoping Document.pdf (PDF, 2.93 MB)
App B - Register of stakeholder consultation.pdf (PDF, 174.6 KB)
App C - Biological survey Part 1.pdf (PDF, 32.92 MB)
App C - Biological survey Part 2.pdf (PDF, 12.14 MB)
App C - Biological survey Part 3.pdf (PDF, 19.74 MB)
App D - Phytophthora dieback assessment.pdf (PDF, 7.12 MB)
App E - Flora and vegetation management plan.pdf (PDF, 6.93 MB)
App F - Mine Closure Plan draft.pdf (PDF, 22.15 MB)
App G - Dieback management plan.pdf (PDF, 2.53 MB)
App H - Fauna and fauna assemblages.pdf (PDF, 5.1 MB)
App I - Phase II fauna survey.pdf (PDF, 536.35 KB)
App J - Fauna Management Plan.pdf (PDF, 3.11 MB)
App K - Topsoil characterisation Kundip.pdf (PDF, 1.4 MB)
App L - Kaolin pit geochemical assessment.pdf (PDF, 3.37 MB)
App M - Mercury content in waste streams.pdf (PDF, 324.43 KB)
App N - Geochemical assessment of tailings.pdf (PDF, 2.15 MB)
App O - Landform evolution modelling.PDF (PDF, 4.71 MB)
App P - Tailings storage facility Part1.pdf (PDF, 18.11 MB)
App P - Tailings storage facility Part2.pdf (PDF, 23.12 MB)
App P - Tailings storage facility Part3.pdf (PDF, 11.13 MB)
App Q - Surface hydrology assessment.pdf (PDF, 8.38 MB)
App R - Hydrogeological setting.pdf (PDF, 7.48 MB)
App S - Projection of pit water quality.pdf (PDF, 105.86 KB)
App T - GHG projection summary.pdf (PDF, 1.12 MB)
App U - Subterranean fauna risk assessment.pdf (PDF, 1.72 MB)
App V - Subterannean fauna.pdf (PDF, 423.47 KB)
Date Published (Environmental Review documentation): 
October 1, 2019
Proponent response to submissions: 
CMS16331 - Response to Submissions.pdf (PDF, 37.47 MB)
Date published (Proponent response to submissions): 
April 22, 2020
Approval for minor and preliminary works s41A(3)
Notice of Approval: 
CMS16331- s41A - Notice of Decision.pdf (PDF, 547.21 KB)
CMS16331 - s41A - Statement of Reasons.pdf (PDF, 576.88 KB)
Date of approval: 
Monday, 11 June, 2018
Change to proposal during assessment under s43A
S43A notice: 
CMS16331 - s43A - Notice of Decision to ACH Minerals 17 January 2018.pdf (PDF, 494.09 KB)
CMS16331 - Statement of Reasons - 170118 (PDF, 173.25 KB)
CMS16331 - S43A Notice of Decision - 191018.pdf (PDF, 1.61 MB)
Date of approval: 
Fri, 19/10/2018
4. EPA Report on assessment
EPA Report Number: 
1677
EPA Report: 
EPA Report 1677 - Ravensthorpe Gold Project - assessment report.pdf (PDF, 4.08 MB)
Key Environmental Factors: 
Social Surroundings
Flora and Vegetation
Terrestrial Environmental Quality
Terrestrial Fauna
Inland Waters
Date published: 
Wednesday, 27 May, 2020
Appeals close: 
Wednesday, 10 June, 2020
5. Decision on proposal and implementation of proposal
Ministerial Statement
Date of approval: 
Monday, 20 July, 2020
Ministerial Statement: 
Ministerial Statement 1143 (PDF, 1.23 MB)

Source URL: https://www.epa.wa.gov.au/proposals/ravensthorpe-gold-project