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Quarry at Lot 150 Clydesdale Road, Grass Valley (1)

Last updated: February 15, 2024

Resource Group (WA) Pty Ltd proposes to construct a hard rock quarry at Lot 150 (792) Clydesdale Road, Grass valley. Holcim (Aust) Pty Ltd will be the eventual operators of the quarry. The proposal will extract, crush and screen approximately seventy thousand tonne (70,000tn) of hard rock per year with an approximate life of the quarry being 20-30 years. The proposal would require the clearing of 8.41 hectares (ha) of native vegetation and have a developmental envelope of 15.2 ha. Read more...

Western Extension to the Keysbrook Mineral Sands Project

Last updated: November 6, 2023

Keysbrook Leucoxene Pty Ltd is proposing to expand its current mining operation for the Keysbrook Mineral Sands Project, which operates under Ministerial Statement Numbers 810 and 1089, to include an additional 511.64 hectares of mining area located immediately west of the current operations. Read more...

Keysbrook Mineral Sands Mine

Last updated: September 18, 2023

The proposal involves the excavation and processing of a low-grade (2.7%) heavy mineral sands deposit near Keysbrook to produce 920,000 tonnes of Heavy Mineral Concentrate (HMC) over 8 years. An area of 30 hectares (ha) would be progressively mined at any time. Topsoil would be removed and stockpiled for use in rehabilitation. The ore would be excavated and unloaded into a dump hopper located on the pit floor. The ore would be conveyed to a screening plant where oversize material would be... Read more...

Boonanarring Mineral Sands Mine

Last updated: June 24, 2021

Open cut dry mining of mineral sands and the processing of mined material through primary and secondary concentration plants and dry minerals separation. It includes the construction and operation of associated infrastructure and a modification to the intersection of Brand Hwy with Wannamal Road West. Read more...

Dongara Titanium Minerals Project

Last updated: July 29, 2019

The proposal is to develop and operate a mineral sands mine approximately 25 kilometres south-east of the township of Dongara in the Midwest Region of Western Australia. Read more...

Keysbrook Mineral Sands Mine (s. 46)

Last updated: October 16, 2014

The proposal is to develop a mineral sands mine near the Keysbrook township. The proposal involves the extraction and processing of a low-grade heavy mineral sands deposit. This inquiry under s46 is in regard to a request for an extension of time for substantial commencement specified in Ministerial Statement 810 . Read more...

Tronox Chandala Synthetic Rutile Plant (s. 46)

Last updated: January 7, 2014

The proposal is for processing of mineral and other sands and preparation of synthetic rutile including by-products at the Tronox Chandala processing facility near the town of Muchea. Inquiry under s46 for a review of conditions of Ministerial Statement 412 . Read more...

Gwindinup Mineral Sands Mine

Last updated: November 24, 2011

The proposal is for the construction and operation of a mineral sands mine at Gwindinup, approximately 25 kilometres south-south-east of Bunbury and between two and ten kilometres south of the town of Boyanup. Read more...

Mineral Sands Mine, Gingin

Last updated: October 31, 2006

The proposal involves the construction and operation of an approximately 2.8 million tonnes per annum mineral sands mine and concentrator plant on part Swan Location 128, 354 & 508, Lot 2; part Swan Location 128 & 340, Lot 3; part Swan Location 128, 354, 355, 506, Lot 9; Swan Location 506; portion of each of Swan Locations 354 & 508, Lot 1 and part Swan Location 511 & 536, Lot 7, near the intersection of Brand Highway and Dewar Road, approximately 2.5 kilometres north-west of... Read more...

Waroona Mineral Sands Project

Last updated: June 30, 2006

The proposal is to develop a mineral sand mine one kilometre north of the township of Waroona, which is approximately 140 km south of Perth. The area for assessment has been identified as Mining Tenements M70/735, M70/797 and M70/1089. Read more...

Synthetic Rutile Plant, Muchea (s46) [967]

Last updated: April 9, 1996

The proponent, Tiwest Joint Venture (Tiwest), seeks an amendment to the environmental conditions of Ministerial Statement 59 under Section 46 of the, Environmental Protection Act 1986, , to allow the synthetic rutile plant at Chandala an increase in nameplate production from 130,000 to 200,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of synthetic rutile. The plant was originally assessed by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) in December 1988 and was approved by the Minister for the Environment to build... Read more...

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