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Magellan Lead Carbonate Project - Inquiry under s. 46 to replace Ministerial Statements 783 and 559

Project
Proponent: 
Magellan Metals Pty Ltd
Proposal description: 

The proposal includes an open-cut lead carbonate mine and processing facilities 30 kilometres west of the Wiluna townsite. The lead carbonate concentrate produced at the mine-site is transported in sealed bags within locked shipping containers by road from the mine-site to Leonora and then by rail to the Port of Fremantle where it is exported.

Assessment Number: 
1868
Region: 
Mid West
Referred under EP Act: 
s46
Industry sector: 
Infrastructure
Last updated: 
August 19, 2016
Current Status: 
Ministerial Statement published
Ministerial Statement published
2. Decision on whether to assess this proposal
Chair's Determination: 
s46 request for a change to environmental conditions (not subject to appeal): Public Notification
Extract of determination: 
PDF icon Chairman's Determination - Magellan Lead Carbonate Project (s46)
Date published: 
Monday, 21 February, 2011
4. EPA Report on assessment
EPA Report Number: 
1415
EPA Report: 
PDF icon Report 1415 - Magellan Lead Carbonate Project - Inquiry under s46 to replace Ministerial Statements 783 and 559
Key Environmental Factors: 
Human Health
Date published: 
Monday, 3 October, 2011
5. Decision on proposal and implementation of proposal
Ministerial Statement
Date of approval: 
Friday, 27 July, 2012
Ministerial Statement: 
PDF icon Ministerial Statement 905
Post-assessment changes
Notice of Interim Implementation Conditions under Section 46A : 
PDF icon Attachment 5 to Statement 905 - s46A notice
Date of approval (46a): 
Wednesday, 13 May, 2015
Comments: 

Attachment 5 to Statement 905 – The notice relates to Condition 18 (Financial Assurance) of Statement 905 and allows the suspension of the requirement of a financial assurance in the event that shipping of lead carbonate concentrate is suspended – interim conditions approved under section 46A on 13 May 2015.

s. 45C amendments: 

Attachment 1 to Statement 905 – Replacement of Schedule 1 – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 19 December 2013.

Attachment 2 to Statement 905 – Replacement of Schedule 2 – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 19 December 2013.

Attachment 3 to Statement 905 – Increase in disturbance area, Establishment of a ‘Development Envelope’, Ability to locate infrastructure as needed within the Development Envelope, Increase in capacity of Tailings Storage Facility (TSF), Removal of ‘Size of orebody’ and ‘Depth of mine pit’ authorised to “Above groundwater table” – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 9 December 2014.

Attachment 4 to Statement 905 – Amended Benthic Sediment Sampling Table – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 9 December 2014.

Attachment 6 to Statement 905 - Additional clearing for additional pits, Integrated Waste Landform (IWL) and infrastructure; increase in total tailings storage capacity; co-locating tailings within existing waste rock landform to form an IWL; change to Short Description of Proposal to include IWL; removal of reference to two Tailings Storage Facility cells; update to sampling sites and associated lead baseline trigger levels; correction of coordinate errors in Table 4 (Now titled Table 8); change to lead baseline trigger level table numbers to maintain numbering sequence; update of Figures 1 to 17 to include amended sample site locations; update to Figure 18 to include new authorised disturbance footprint - change to proposal approved under section 45C on 19 August 2016.

Date of approval s. 45C: 
Thursday, 19 December, 2013
Thursday, 19 December, 2013
Tuesday, 9 December, 2014
Tuesday, 9 December, 2014
Friday, 19 August, 2016

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