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Revised Proposal for the Roy Hill Iron Ore Mine

Project
Proponent: 
Roy Hill Iron Ore Pty Ltd
Proposal description: 

The Revised Proposal outlines a significant increase in ground disturbance to that previously approved, a revised materials management strategy, a Life of Mine water management strategy including Managed Aquifer Reinjection, a significant increase in dewatering volumes and establishment of permanent surface water diversion structures.

Proposal Content Document: 
PDF icon Proposal Content Document - May 2025.pdf
Assessment Number: 
2214
Region: 
Pilbara
Referred under EP Act: 
s38
Industry sector: 
Iron Ore
Last updated: 
August 28, 2025
Current Status: 
Ministerial Statement published
Ministerial Statement published
1. Referral
Comment on this referral: 
Revised Proposal for the Roy Hill Iron Ore Mine
Comment period: 
Monday, 13 May, 2019 to Sunday, 19 May, 2019
Referral documentation: 
PDF icon Referral Form
PDF icon Environmental Review Document - 2019 PT1.pdf
PDF icon Environmental Review Document - 2019 PT2.pdf
PDF icon Environmental Review Document - 2019 PT3.pdf
PDF icon A01 - Proposed Schedule 1.pdf
PDF icon A02.1 - Life of Mine Water Management Strategy - Groundwater Change Assessment.pdf
PDF icon A02.2 - Life of Mine Water Management Strategy - Appendices.pdf
PDF icon A03 - Hydraulic Structures.pdf
PDF icon A04 - Desktop Review of Vegetation Mapping.pdf
PDF icon A05 - Survey for Triodia veniciae.pdf
PDF icon A06 - Remote MAR Borefield Reconnaissance Flora and Vegetation Survey.pdf
PDF icon A07 - Detailed (Level 2) Flora and Vegetation Assessment (2017-18).pdf
PDF icon A08 - FMMA Strategies and RHIO Management.pdf
PDF icon A09 - Life of Mine Water Management Strategy Vegetation Risk Assessment.pdf
PDF icon A10 - Level 1 - Targeted Vertebrate Fauna Assessment.pdf
PDF icon A11 - Night Parrot Survey Final.pdf
PDF icon A12 - Subfauna Desktop.pdf
PDF icon A13 - TSF Decant Water Re-use Risk Assessment_opt.pdf
PDF icon A14.01 - Mine Closure Plan Final.pdf
PDF icon A14.02 - Mine Closure Plan Appendices PT1.pdf
PDF icon A14.03 - Mine Closure Plan Appendices PT2.pdf
PDF icon A14.04 - Mine Closure Plan Appendices PT3.pdf
2. Decision on whether to assess this proposal
Chair's Determination: 
Assess - Public Environmental Review
Extract of determination: 
PDF icon Revised Proposal for Roy Hill Iron Ore Mine
Preliminary Environmental Factors: 
Flora and Vegetation
Subterranean Fauna
Terrestrial Fauna
Inland Waters
Date published: 
Monday, 1 July, 2019
3. Assessment
Scoping
Environmental scoping document: 
PDF icon CMS17574 - ESD Approved - 130120.pdf
Approved: 
Monday, 13 January, 2020
Environmental Review
Public submissions: 
Monday, 11 January, 2021 to Monday, 1 February, 2021
Make a submission: 
Revised Proposal for the Roy Hill Iron Ore Mine - Public Environmental Review
Environmental Review documentation: 
PDF icon Revised Proposal - Environmental Review Document - Public Environmental Review_Part1.pdf
PDF icon Revised Proposal - Environmental Review Document - Public Environmental Review_Part2.pdf
PDF icon Revised Proposal - Environmental Review Document - Public Environmental Review_Part3.pdf
PDF icon Roy Hill Revised Proposal Key Figures.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 01 - ESD Scoping.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 02 - LOM WMS.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 03 - Groundwater Model Transport Simulations.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 04 - MAR Groundwater Data Review.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 05 - Mine Closure Plan 2018 -2021 DRAFT (PART 1).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 05 - Mine Closure Plan 2018 -2021 DRAFT (PART 2).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 06 - S38_Hydraulic_Structures.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 07 - World View 3 GDV mapping.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 08 - Consolidated Flora and Vegetation Report (PART 1).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 08 - Consolidated Flora and Vegetation Report (PART 2).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 08 - Consolidated Flora and Vegetation Report (PART 3).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 08 - Consolidated Flora and Vegetation Report (PART 4).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 09 - LOM WMS Vegetation Risk Assessment inc Add 2.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 10 - Roy Hill Vegetation Management Plan - Mine.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 11 - Survey Effort Maps for MNES and Fauna.pdf.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 12 - Ecologia Environment (2006) SRE Survey 2006.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13 - Ecologia (2008b) Additional SRE Survey Report.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 14 - ENV Australia (2009) Roy Hill Borefield Vertebrate Fauna Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 15 - Roy Hill Iron Ore Project Borefield Desktop Survey (Ecologia, 2009).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 16 - Ecologia (2009d) Short-range Endemic Desktop Survey.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 17 - Western Australian Museum (2009) The SRE Invertebrate Fauna of Roy Hill.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 18 - Ecologia (2010) Additional SRE invertebrate survey..pdf
PDF icon Appendix 19 - Ecologia Environment (2009b) Remote Borefeild & Pipeline Short Range Endemic Survey.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 20 - Bennelongia (2011) Monitoring SRE at RHIO 2011.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 21 - Bennelongia (2012) Monitoring SRE at RHIO Feb 2012.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 22 - Bennelongia (2013) Monitoring SRE Invertebrates at RHIO April-July2013.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 23 - Roy Hill Fauna List.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 24 - Ecologia 2009d Level 2 Detailed Fauna Survey.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 25 - Biologic 2017 Level 1 Targeted Fauna Survey.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 26 - Biologic 2018a Level 1 Targeted Fauna Survey.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 27 - Animal Plant Mineral 2010 Fauna Habitat Survey of the Proposed Borefields Pipeline Route from adjacent Roy Hill Station to Eaton Bore.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 28 - Ecologia 2008 Level 1 Fauna Survey.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 29 - Biologic 2020 Level 1 Targeted Survey.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 30 - Roy_Hill_Night_Parrot_Survey_Final.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 31 - Biologic 2020a Roy Hill Development Project Short-Range Endemic Invertebrate Fauna Desktop Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 32 - Roy Hill Short Range Endemic Species List.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 33 - Ecologia (2009) Interim SRE Invertebrate Report.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 34 - Phoenix (2011) Level1 Fauna survey and desktop review for the Roy Hill Infrastructure Railway - Bonney Downs Alignment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 35 - Mine Vertebrate Fauna Management Plan.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 36 - SWIB Troglofauna Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 37 - Subterranean Fauna LOM WMS Desktop Review.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 38 - Remote MAR Subterranean Fauna and Hydrogeology_241120.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 39 - TSF Decant Water Re-use Risk Assessment.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 40 - Peer Review of LOM WMS.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 41- Roy Hill Mine Water Management Plan.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 42 - Greenhouse Gas Management Plan - Roy Hill Iron Ore Mine.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 43 - Roy Hill Rehabilitation Success Report.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 44 - Conservation Significant Fauna Offset Strategy.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 45 - Impact Reconciliation Procedure.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 46 - EPBC Act Protected Matters Search August 2018.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 47 - MNES Regional Distribution Maps.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 48 - Migratory Birds Regional Distribution Maps.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 49 - Proposed Schedule 1.pdf
PDF icon Figure 1-04 - Interaction Between MS847 and Revised Proposal.pdf
PDF icon Figure 2-03 - 2-04 - Revised Proposal Concept Layout.pdf
PDF icon Figure 2-06 - Approved and proposed water footprint.pdf
PDF icon Figure 2-15 - Current and Proposed Conservation Areas.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-01 - 4-02 - Flora and Vegetation Survey Coverage.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-03 - 4-04 - Flora and Vegetation Survey Effort.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-05 - 4-06 - Beard Vegetation Associations.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-07 - 4-08 - Land Systems.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-09 - 4-10 - PECs near RDE.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-12 - 4-14 - Vegetation Units .pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-16 - 4-17 - Vegetation of other significance.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-18 - 4-19 - Vegetation Condition.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-18 - Fortescue Marsh Management Area Zones.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-20 - 4-21 - Priority Flora Locations.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-22 - 4-23 - Weed Locations.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-27 - 4-28 - Fauna Survey Coverage.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-29 - 4-31 - Fauna Habitats within RDE.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-33 - 4-34 - Caves and Water Pools within RDE.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-35 - Cumulative Impacts to Antichiropus sloanae.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-36 - 4-38 - SRE Invertebrate locations against SRE habitats.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-40 - 4-41 - Subterranean Fauna Habitats.pdf
PDF icon Figure 4-82 - 4-83 - Cumulative Groundwater Impacts.pdf
PDF icon Figure 7-03 - 7-04 - Northern Quoll Habitat.pdf
PDF icon Figure 7-05 - 7-06 Greater Bilby Habitat.pdf
PDF icon Figure 7-07 - Proposed Bilby Offsets Map.pdf
PDF icon Figure 7-08 - 7-09 - Ghost Bat Roost Locations.pdf
PDF icon Figure 7-10 - 7-11 - Ghost Bat Habitat.pdf
PDF icon Figure 7-12 - Pilbara Leaf-nosed Bat Locations.pdf
PDF icon Figure 7-14 - 7-15 - Pilbara Olive Python Habitat.pdf
PDF icon Figure 7-15 - 7-17 - Migratory Bird Habitat.pdf
Date Published (Environmental Review documentation): 
January 11, 2021
Proponent response to submissions: 
PDF icon Roy Hill Response to Submission Report.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 01 - LOM WMS Vegetation Risk Assessment inc Add 2.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 02 - Vegetation Classification Methodology Memo.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 03 - LOM WMS Vegetation Risk Assessment Consequence Memo.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 04 - S38_Hydraulic_Structures.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 05 - Draft Roy Hill Mine Water Management Plan.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 06 - S43A Notice.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 07 - Roy Hill Vegetation Management Plan (OP-PLN-00344).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 08 - Draft Impact Reconciliation Procedure.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 09 - Greenhouse Gas Management Plan - Roy Hill Iron Ore Mine Rev4.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 10 - Roy Hill Mine Vertebrate Fauna Management Plan (OP-PLN-00324).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 11 - Weed Management Plan (OP-PLN-00145).pdf
PDF icon Appendix 12 - Figure 1 - Roy Hill Project Conceptual Hydrogeological Cross Section.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 13 - Figure 1a - Conceptual Hydrogeological Section – showing hydrographs of deep and shallow aquifer response to dewatering, injection and rainfall.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 14 - Figure 2 - Conceptual effect of Roy Hill water management on aquifer water balance.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 15 - Figure 2-3 - Conceptual Mine Layout.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 16 - Figure 2-4 - Conceptual Borefield Layout.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 17 - Figure 2-5 Buffle Grass Records in RDE.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 18 - Figure 2-6 Ghost Bat Cave _ Overhangs.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 19 - Figure 2-7 Ghost Bat Cave Exclusion Zone.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 20 - Figure 3 - Groundwater drawdown cumulative effects – location plan.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 21 - Figure 4 - Groundwater and Surface Water Risk Areas.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 22 - Figure 4-12 Vegetation Units across the Revised Development Envelope.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 23 - Figure 4-16 Vegetation of Other Significance.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 24 - Figure 5 - VT 30 and Narbung Land System Extent.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 25 - Figure 6 - Astron Vegetation Classification Map.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 26 - Figure 7 - Heritage Management Areas.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 27 - Figure 8 - Map of Ethnobotanic Survey.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 28 - Biologic 2021 Roy Hill Rhagodia Hamersley_Memo.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 29 - Roy Hill Mine Annual Aquifer Review Aug 2019 to Jul 2020.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 30 - GHD 2021 Surface Water Hydraulic Structure Vegetation Impacts.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 31 - Astron LOM WMS Vegetation Risk Assessment Addendum Maps.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 32 - Consolidated Flora and Vegetation Report.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 33 - Weed Management Procedure.pdf
PDF icon Appendix 34 - Astron, 2021b. Surface Water Flows – Memo, August 2021.pdf
PDF icon MANIFEST_Appendices.pdf
Date published (Proponent response to submissions): 
October 18, 2021
Change to proposal during assessment under s. 43A
s. 43A notice: 
PDF icon CMS17574 - S43A Notice - 310821.pdf
Date of approval s. 43A: 
Tue, 31/08/2021
4. EPA Report on assessment
EPA Report Number: 
1716
EPA Report: 
PDF icon EPA Report 1716 - Revised Proposal for the Roy Hill Iron Ore Mine - assessment report.pdf
Key Environmental Factors: 
Social Surroundings
Flora and Vegetation
Subterranean Fauna
Terrestrial Fauna
Inland Waters
Date published: 
Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
Appeals close: 
Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
5. Decision on proposal and implementation of proposal
Ministerial Statement
Date of approval: 
Thursday, 19 May, 2022
Ministerial Statement: 
PDF icon Statement 1189.pdf
Post-assessment changes
Section 46 inquiry: 
Revised Proposal for the Roy Hill Iron Ore Mine (s46) [2490]
s. 45C amendments: 

Attachment 1 to Ministerial Statement 1189 - Condition 12-3 is deleted, and replaced. Change approved under S45C on 24 November 2022.

Attachment 2 to Ministerial Statement 1189 - Remove the total dissolved solid (TDS) limit of 50,000 mg/L for aquifer reinjection of excess mine dewater. Remove the TDS limit of 50,000 mg/L for dust suppression using excess mine dewater. Replace the introduction to reference a Proposal Content Document for the purposing of describing the approved proposal. Replace condition 1-1 to reflect the removal of the TDS limits. Change approved under S45C on 2 July 2024.

Attachment 3 to Ministerial Statement 1189 - Changes:
• Replace the proposal description to allow integration of externally sourced ore integration.
• Minor expansion of the development envelope to include miscellaneous tenement L46/129.
• Expansion of the Southwest Injection Borefield (SWIB) extent.
• Include an additional in-pit tailings storage facility (IPTSF) within the Delta 2 pit.
• Administrative change to remove the use of ‘indicative’ from condition 1-1 and Figures 3 and 4.
• Administrative change to correct the maximum extent of excess water used for dust suppression to ‘no more than 7.4 GL per annum’.
• Change the purpose of the access road connecting to the Marble Bar Road to a haul road. Replace condition 1-1 and condition 10 to reflect this change. 

Changes approved under S45C on 7 May 2025.

Attachment 4 to Ministerial Statement 1189 - Administrative change in the development envelope and disturbance footprint extents of condition 1-1. Change approved under S45C on 28 August 2025.

Attachments: 
PDF icon MS1189 S45C Att 1 Summary of reasons.pdf
PDF icon Attachment 2 - Summary of Reasons.pdf
PDF icon Attachment 3 - Notice and Summary of Reasons.pdf
PDF icon Attachment 4 - Notice and Summary of Reasons.pdf
Date of approval s. 45C: 
Friday, 24 November, 2023
Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
Thursday, 28 August, 2025

Source URL:https://www.epa.wa.gov.au/proposals/revised-proposal-roy-hill-iron-ore-mine