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Koolanooka Hills and Blue Hills Remnant Direct Shipping Iron Ore Mining Project

Project
Proponent: 
Sinosteel Midwest Corporation Limited
Proposal description: 

Proposal by Sinosteel Midwest Corporation Limited to mine hematite ore at Koolanooka Hills and at two locations at Mungada (part of the Blue Hills Range), to reinstate the Mungada Haul Road to its original width and construct an accommodation camp at Old Karara Homestead.

Assessment Number: 
1653
Region: 
Mid West
Referred under EP Act: 
s38
Industry sector: 
Iron Ore
Last updated: 
December 21, 2017
Current Status: 
Ministerial Statement published
Ministerial Statement published
3. Assessment
Environmental Review
Environmental Review documentation: 
PDF icon Koolanooka - Blue Hills DSO PER
PDF icon Appendix 13.2 ATA (2004a) Vegetation and Flora Assessment Koolanooka.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.3 ATA (2004c) Fauna Assessment Koolanooka.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.4 Bamford (2004) Blue Hills Fauna Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.5 Bamford (2006b) Fauna Values of Karara & Mungada.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.6 Dustcheck brochure #1.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.8 Bond (2007) Koolanooka Greenhouse Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.9 Kool & Blue Hills Flora & Veg Report v8 30 July 2008 qa.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.10 ecologia (2007) Koolanooka Blue Hills SRE Lit Review and Risk Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.11 ecologia (2007) Koolanooka Stygofauna Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.12 ecologia (2007) Koolanooka Troglofauna Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.13 AIC (2003) Section 18 Consultation M70-1012, M70-1013, M70-1014.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.14 O'Connor (1996) Report of an Ethnographic Survey Koolanooka & Blue Hills.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.15 Quartermaine (1996) Aboriginal Site Survey, Mullewa.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.16 Rockwater (2004a) Koolanooka Groundwater.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.17 Rockwater (2004b) Koolanooka Groundwater Stage 1.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.18 Rockwater (2006) Koolanooka-Blue Hills Groundwater.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.19 Rockwater (2007) Bore test results Koolanooka-Blue Hills.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.20 SKM (2006) Koolanooka Dust Modelling and Impact Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.21 WA Chem Centre (2006) Acid Sulphate Testing SPOCAS.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.22 WHR (2005) Blue Hills Haul Rd & Siding Archeological Report.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.23 ecologia (2007a) Koolanooka & Blue Hills Scoping Document.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.24 ecologia (2008) Koolanooka Blue Hills DSO Project EMP.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.25 ecologia (2007) Koolanooka Blue Hills EMS.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.26 ecologia (2008) Koolanooka - Blue Hills DSO Closure Plan.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.27 (ecologia 2008) Karara Camp Management Plan.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.28 ecologia (2008) Koolanooka Blue Hills Significant Flora Management Plan.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.29 ecologia (2008f) Stygofauna Assessment Survey.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13.30 ecologia (2008) Koolanooka Blue Hills Troglofauna Survey.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13-1 Alan Tingay Assoc 1996 Vertebrate Fauna Koolanooka.pdf
4. EPA Report on assessment
EPA Report Number: 
1328
EPA Report: 
PDF icon EPA Report 1328
Key Environmental Factors: 
Flora and Vegetation
Terrestrial Fauna
Date published: 
Tuesday, 2 June, 2009
5. Decision on proposal and implementation of proposal
Ministerial Statement
Date of approval: 
Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Ministerial Statement: 
PDF icon Ministerial Statement 0811
Post-assessment changes
s. 45C amendments: 

Attachment 1 to Statement 811 - Mine detritals, expand Koolanooka South fold Cutback, increase the size of overburden stockpiles, and in-pit backfilling - change to proposal approved under s45C on 17 March 2010.

Attachment 2 to Statement 811 – Additional ore stockpile areas for Koolanooka Mine – change to proposal approved under s45C on 17 May 2011.

Attachment 3 to Statement 811 – Amendments to the Blue Hills component of the Koolanooka/Blue Hills DSO Mining Project to include expansion of the Mungada West and East pits, relocation of the processing facilities, relocation and expansion of waste stockpiles and ore stockpiles, relocate the access tracks and haul roads and reduction of clearing of the Mungada haul road between Koolanooka and Blue Hills – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 3 May 2013.

Attachment 4 to Statement 811 – Extension of the Mungada West pit and new access Haul Road – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 10 December 2014.

Attachment 5 to Statement 811 – Mining up to 4 m below the water table in Mungada West pit, Mining up to 38 m below the water table in Mungada East pit, Two in-pit sumps, each pit with a holding capacity of 175 kL, Up to 3.2 km of dewatering pipeline from Mungada West and East pits (within the alignment of the existing haul road) to the existing ‘turkey’s nest’ with a holding capacity of 4,860 kL, Up to 0.44 GL/ a of dewatering from the in-pit sumps from both Mungada East and West pits to the existing Turkey’s nest  – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 21 December 2017.

Date of approval s. 45C: 
Wednesday, 17 March, 2010
Tuesday, 17 May, 2011
Friday, 3 May, 2013
Wednesday, 10 December, 2014
Thursday, 21 December, 2017

Source URL:https://www.epa.wa.gov.au/proposals/koolanooka-hills-and-blue-hills-remnant-direct-shipping-iron-ore-mining-project