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Medcalf Vanadium Project

Project
Proponent: 
Audalia Resources Limited
Proposal description: 

Audalia Resources Limited (Audalia) is proposing to construct and operate a vanadium, titanium and iron ore mine approximately 100 kilometres (km) west of Norseman, Western Australia (WA). The Medcalf Project, located in the Bremer Range, Lake Johnston region of Western Australia, approximately 470 km east south-east of Perth.

The proposal includes three separate open pits and requires up to 650 ha of native vegetation clearing. Mining will occur above groundwater.

The proposal includes the following key components:

  1. Mine Development Envelope (898 ha); and
  2. Haul Road Development Envelope (1,633 ha).
Assessment Number: 
2156
Region: 
Goldfields Esperance
Referred under EP Act: 
s38
Industry sector: 
Iron Ore
Last updated: 
July 4, 2024
Current Status: 
Ministerial Statement published
Ministerial Statement published
1. Referral
Comment on this referral: 
Metcalf Vanadium Project
Comment period: 
Tuesday, 27 February, 2018 to Monday, 5 March, 2018
Referral documentation: 
PDF icon Referral Form.pdf
PDF icon Supporting Information - Appendix 1 Detailed Flora and Vegetation Survey.pdf
PDF icon Supporting Information - Referral Attachments FINAL.pdf
PDF icon Supporting Document - Tailings Storage Facility.pdf
PDF icon Supporting Document - Trogofauna Pilot Study.pdf
2. Decision on whether to assess this proposal
Chair's Determination: 
Assess - Public Environmental Review
Extract of determination: 
PDF icon Medcalf Vanadium Project
Preliminary Environmental Factors: 
Flora and Vegetation
Terrestrial Environmental Quality
Terrestrial Fauna
Hydrological Processes
Inland Waters Environmental Quality
Date published: 
Monday, 19 March, 2018
3. Assessment
Scoping
Environmental scoping document: 
PDF icon CMS17278-ESD Approved-010419.pdf
Approved: 
Monday, 1 April, 2019
Environmental Review
Public submissions: 
Monday, 8 March, 2021 to Monday, 3 May, 2021
Make a submission: 
Comment on the Environmental Review Document here
Environmental Review documentation: 
PDF icon Environmental Review Document Part 1.pdf
PDF icon Environmental Review Document Part 2.pdf
PDF icon 1 Geotechnical Desktop Study of Pit North Shell Stability Memorandum (Knight Piesold, 2019).pdf
PDF icon 2 Soils of the Audalia Medcalf area (Western Horticultural Consulting, 2019).pdf
PDF icon 3.1 Geomorphology of MA sub-populations.pdf
PDF icon 3.2 Genetic diversity in sub-populations of MA.pdf
PDF icon 3.3 MA demographic monitoring.pdf
PDF icon 3.4 Marianthus aquilonaris landform monitoring spring 2018 (Botanica, 2019).pdf
PDF icon 3.5 Deposition Study (Ramboll, 2020a).pdf
PDF icon 3.6 Haul Road Dust Deposition Study (Ramboll, 2020b).pdf
PDF icon 3.7 CFD Wind Study (Ramboll, 2020c).pdf
PDF icon 3.8 Germination memo (Botanica, 2020b).pdf
PDF icon 3.9 Audalia Resources_Level 2 Flora Report FINAL October 2020.pdf
PDF icon 3.10 Flora and Vegetation Impact Assessment (Botanica, 2020d).pdf
PDF icon 3.11 Summary on ecology of Marianthus aquilonaris Final (Botanica, 2020e).pdf
PDF icon 3.12 Detailed maps of significant flora records.pdf
PDF icon 3.13 Evaluation of the Effects of Mineral Dust Deposition.pdf
PDF icon 3.14 E. rhomboidea and S. bremerense critical habitat Report_Final (01-12-2020).pdf
PDF icon 4 Mine Closure Plan.pdf
PDF icon 5.1 Fauna survey. Medcalf Vanadium Mining Project FINAL (Harewood, 2020a).pdf
PDF icon 5.2 Short-range Endemic Fauna Report (Bennelongia, 2020a).pdf
PDF icon 5.3 Fauna Assessment. Medcalf Proposed Haul Road (Harewood, 2020b).pdf
PDF icon 5.4 Insect visitors to Marianthus aquilonaris and surrounding flora (Prendergast, 2019).pdf
PDF icon 6 Assessment of Subterranean Fauna Values (Bennelongia, 2020b).pdf
PDF icon 7.1 Geochemical Characterisation of Slurry Samples of Deslimed - Tailings.pdf
PDF icon 7.2 Characterisation of Mine - Waste Samples (GCA, 2020b).pdf
PDF icon 7.3 Brief description of Medcalf geology Memo (Butler, 2020).pdf
PDF icon 7.4 Technical Memorandum Response to EPA on Waste Rock Sampling (Butler, 2020b).pdf
PDF icon 7.5 Tailings Storage Facility Design Concept (Golder, 2020).pdf
PDF icon 7.6 Tailings Storage Facility Closure Design Report (Mine Earth, 2020).pdf
PDF icon 8.1 Medcalf Hydrogeological and Hydrological Study Surface Water Assessment (GRM, 2020a).pdf
PDF icon 8.2 Groundwater Supply Investigation Audalia Resources Limited Medcalf Vanadium Project (GRM, 2020b).pdf
PDF icon 8.3 Hydro Study of MA Habitat.pdf
PDF icon 8.4 Medcalf Vanadium Project – Haul Road Water Supply. Technical Memorandum (GRM, 2020d).pdf
PDF icon 9 GHG Estimation (Just Design Engineering, 2019).pdf
PDF icon 10 Dust Control Management Strategy (Ramboll, 2020c).pdf
PDF icon 12 Offset Strategy.pdf
Proponent response to submissions: 
PDF icon CMS17278 - Response to Submissions - 010722.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 1 - Appendix 6 of Botanica 2021a - Germination memo.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 1 - Appendix 7 of Botanica 2021a - Soils of the Audalia Medcalf Area.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 1 - Medcalf Project Rehabilitation Plan (Botanica, 2022a).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 2 - Appendix 7 of Preston Consulting 2022a - Risk Register - Closure.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 2 - Medcalf Project Interim MCP (Preston Consulting, 2022a).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 3 - Medcalf Long Haul Road Concept Allignment and Outline Construction Summary document (Roadmiles, 2015).PDF
PDF icon Appendix 4 - Medcalf Project Fauna Management Plan (Audalia, 2022).PDF
PDF icon Appendix 5 - Medcalf Project Significant Flora Management Plan (Botanica, 2022b).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 6 - Revised Response to Impact Assessment Review (Doley, 2021).PDF
PDF icon Appendix 7 - Medcalf Project Assessment of Subterranean Fauna Values (Bennelongia, 2021).PDF
PDF icon Appendix 8 - Short-range endemic fauna survey at the Medcalf Project (Bennelongia, 2022).PDF
PDF icon Appendix 9 - Memorandum Bremer Range Priority Flora and Communities Conservation Assessment (Botanica, 2021a).PDF
PDF icon Appendix 10 - GCA Memorandum (GCA, 2021).PDF
PDF icon Appendix 11 - Audalia Phase 2 Level 2 Fauna Survey Report v5 (Harewood, 2021a).PDF
PDF icon Appendix 12 - Proposed Haul Road Fauna Assessment v5 (Harewood, 2021b).PDF
PDF icon Appendix 13 - Audalia Medcalf Project Offset Strategy (Preston Consulting, 2021).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 14 - Medcalf Project Survey for Malleefowl (Botanica, 2021b).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 15 - Memorandum Medcalf Project Sterile Flora Assessment (Botanica, 2022c).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 16 - Potential pollinators of the Critically Endangered Marianthus aquilonaris Follow-up survey (Prendergast, 2021).pdf
PDF icon Offset Strategy (January 2024).pdf
Date published (Proponent response to submissions): 
July 1, 2022
Change to proposal during assessment under s. 43A
s. 43A notice: 
PDF icon CMS17278-S43A Notice-041120.pdf
PDF icon s. 43A Notice - 090424.pdf
Date of approval s. 43A: 
Tue, 09/04/2024
4. EPA Report on assessment
EPA Report Number: 
1765
EPA Report: 
PDF icon EPA Report 1765 - Medcalf Vanadium Project.pdf
Key Environmental Factors: 
Flora and Vegetation
Terrestrial Fauna
Date published: 
Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
Appeals close: 
Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
5. Decision on proposal and implementation of proposal
Ministerial Statement
Date of approval: 
Thursday, 4 July, 2024
Ministerial Statement: 
PDF icon Ministerial Statement 1228

Source URL:https://www.epa.wa.gov.au/proposals/medcalf-vanadium-project