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Covalent Lithium Hydroxide Refinery

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The proposal is for the construction and operation of a Lithium Hydroxide Refinery at Lot 15 Mason Road, Kwinana within the Kwinana Industrial Area, approximately 31 km south of the Perth Central Business District. The Proposal will process spodumene ore concentrate, to produce battery grade Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate, primarily for use in Lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles. The proposal would require a total of 11.2 hectares of native vegetation clearing within a 76 hectare... Read more...

Albemarle Kemerton Plant

Last updated: November 25, 2024

Albemarle Lithium Pty Ltd (Albemarle) is proposing to stablish the Albemarle Kemerton Plant, a Lithium hydroxide Product manufacturing plant and associated infrastructure, within the Kemerton Strategic Industrial Area (KSIA), approximately 17 kilometres north-east of Bunbury. The Albemarle Kemerton Plant will produce up to 100,000 tonne per annum (tpa) of lithium hydroxide monohydrate (Lithium Hydroxide Product) from five 20,000 tpa process trains and produce up to 1,100,000 tpa of tailings.... Read more...

Wingellina Nickel Project

Last updated: November 25, 2024

Hinckley Range Pty Ltd proposes to mine nickeliferous limonite ore from the Wingellina deposit located approximately 1,400 km north-east of Perth in the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku close to the Northern Territory and South Australia borders Read more...

Gorgon Gas Development Revised and Expanded Proposal: Barrow Island Nature Reserve

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The construction of facilities for the development of the Greater Gorgon Gas Fields on the North-West Shelf, and the processing and export of the gas at a liquefied natural gas plant to be constructed on Barrow Island. Read more...

Gonneville Nickel-Copper-Platinum Group Element (PGE) Project

Last updated: November 12, 2024

Chalice Mining Limited proposes development of the Gonneville Nickel-Copper-Platinum Group Element (PGE) Project. The proposal is located within the Wheatbelt Region, approximately 70km north-east of Perth, 25 km west of Toodyay and 25 km south-east of Bindoon. The proposal comprises of a mine site including an open mine pit and/or underground mine and infrastructure corridor options for water and power supply. Road and/or existing rail infrastructure will be utilised in transporting supplies... Read more...

Valhalla Gas Exploration and Appraisal Program

Last updated: October 7, 2024

Bennett Resources is proposing to undertake an unconventional exploration drilling and hydraulic fracture stimulation program within Petroleum Exploration Permit EP 371 (EP 371) within the Shire of Derby, West Kimberley. The proposal area is located approximately 123 kilometres south east of the town of Derby. The proposal comprises the construction of up to twenty wells in a region of the Canning Basin that has been previously surveyed and explored for petroleum purposes. The proposal is... Read more...

Utah Point Berth Project (Stage B)

Last updated: September 27, 2024

The Utah Point Berth Project consists of two separate stages: Stage A: Dredging and Reclamation; and Stage B: Construction and Operation. Stage A, dredging and reclamation works for the UPBP was approved by the Minister for Environment as an amendment to the existing Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) approval and managed according to the approved conditions. The works for Stage A have been successfully completed. The EPA determined that Stage B, the construction and ongoing operation of stockyard... Read more...

Murrin Murrin Nickel-Cobalt Project Stage 2 Expansion

Last updated: April 24, 2024

The proposal is for the Stage 2 expansion of the Murrin Murrin Nickel-Cobalt mining and processing operation (Stage 1), 60 kilometres east of Leonora. The Stage 2 expansion includes the mining of additional ore; an expansion of the processing plant to process additional ore; and the development of additional infrastructure associated with mining and processing of the ore. Read more...

Kemerton Strategic Industrial Area (KSIA)

Last updated: April 2, 2024

DevelopmentWA is seeking to develop the Kemerton Strategic Industrial Area (KSIA) for the purpose of industrial and infrastructure development as a strategic proposal. The KSIA is located within the Shire of Harvey, 17 kilometres north of Bunbury. The KSIA key characteristics are: Development of the Kemerton Strategic industry Zone (Industry Core) which is approximately 2,024 hectares (ha). There is an approximate 50-year time period for development. Ultimate land use proposed is to be heavy... Read more...

Caravel Copper Project

Last updated: March 14, 2024

Caravel Minerals Limited is seeking to develop the Caravel Copper Project, located in the Western Australian (WA) Wheatbelt approximately 150 km north of Perth. The Proposal will produce copper concentrate, which will be transported to port by road. The Proposal includes mine pits, waste rock landforms, tailings storage, ore processing and transfer infrastructure and associated infrastructure such as workshops, laydown areas, landfill, communications, offices, ablutions, wastewater treatment,... Read more...

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...

Cloudbreak Life of Mine Expansion

Last updated: February 9, 2024

The proposal includes the existing Cloudbreak iron ore mine and proposed expansion. The existing mine includes open pit strip mining, backfilling of pits, progressive rehabilitation and ore processing. The expansion includes increasing ore production, development of new pits and permanent waste landforms, the development of new infrastructure, additional dewatering and water disposal activities, an upgrade of the ore processing facility. Read more...

BHP Billiton Iron Ore - Pilbara Strategic Proposal

Last updated: February 5, 2024

BHP Billiton Iron Ore has prepared a Strategic Proposal of its future operations in the Pilbara for the next 50 to 100 years. The Strategic Proposal will facilitate a more holistic and longer term view of mining activities in the Pilbara region by identifying and assessing how impacts to the environment at a landscape scale will be managed. Read more...

HyEnergy® Green Hydrogen and Ammonia Project

Last updated: February 5, 2024

Province Resources Ltd propose to use combined onshore wind and solar energy to produce green hydrogen and ammonia for export to the green energy market. The proposal is distributed across 3 distinct locations within the Shire of Carnarvon, Western Australia. The proposal will comprise the following major elements: • up to 945 ha (6.8 GW) of wind turbines and up to 10,000 ha of solar arrays (5.2 GW) • a new multiuser port facility with a material offloading facility and export terminal •... Read more...

Winu Project

Last updated: December 22, 2023

Rio Tinto Winu Pty Limited (the Proponent) proposes to develop the Winu Project (the Proposal). The Proposal is a new copper-gold mine located approximately 300 km south of Broome and 320 km east of Port Hedland in the northern Pilbara region of Western Australia within both the Nyangumarta people’s and the Martu people’s Native Title Determination Areas. The Proposal conceptual footprint will require the clearing of up to 4,868 ha of native vegetation within a proposed 37,344 ha Development... Read more...

Resource Recovery Facility, Red Hill

Last updated: November 14, 2023

The proposal is to construct and operate a resource recovery facility within the existing Red Hill Waste Management Facility, City of Swan, for the processing of waste to produce energy, using either anaerobic digestion technology or gasification technology. Read more...

Eliwana Iron Ore Mine

Last updated: November 6, 2023

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd proposes to develop the Eliwana Mine Project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Eliwana Mine Project Area is located approximately 90 km west-northwest of Tom Price. Over the life of the mine, the average annual production rate is estimated at 30 Mtpa but infrastructure will be constructed to reflect peaks in the annual production rate up to 50 Mtpa. The estimated mine life is 24 years. The proposal involves the clearing of up to 8,560 ha of native... 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...

Newman Hub (Western Ridge) Derived Proposal

Last updated: September 8, 2023

BHP propose to expand existing mining operations at the Newman Hub in the Pilbara, approximately 2 kilometres (km) southwest of Newman. The Proposal is a derived proposal for mining operations at Newman (Western Ridge) authorised by the Pilbara Expansion Strategic Proposal, Ministerial Statement 1105. The proposal is to develop four iron ore deposits to expand BHP’s Newman Hub and includes: overburden storage areas ore and topsoil stockpiles haul and access roads overland conveyor 30 million... Read more...

Manuwarra Red Dog Highway – Revised Proposal

Last updated: July 4, 2023

In 1998 Main Roads Western Australia (Main Roads) referred Stages 2, 3 and 4 of the Karratha – Tom Price Road, now called the Manuwarra Red Dog Highway (the Original Proposal), to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). The EPA assessed the Original Proposal and published EPA Report 1159. Ministerial Statement (MS) 677 was published in 2005. Construction of Stage 2 was completed in 2008. Stage 3 of the Original Proposal is currently under construction and is expected to be completed in... Read more...

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