Last updated: November 25, 2024
The Western Green Energy Hub is a proposal to design, construct and operate a large-scale wind and solar power project to produce value added products, with the base case assuming green ammonia production. The proposal is situated on WA Mirning Native Title determined land in the far southeast of Western Australia in the Shire of Dundas and City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, to the northwest of Eucla in the South Coast Region. The proposal will be located on Unallocated Crown Land and pastoral leases... Read more...Last updated: November 25, 2024
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The Proposal involves the reactivation and expansion of a gold mining area approximately 2.5 kilometres south of Coolgardie in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. Key elements include the development of the Alicia open pit, expansion of the Dreadnought open pit and waste rock landform, haul road and ancillary infrastructure. Mined ore will be hauled for processing at the nearby Three Mile Hill plant, with tailings to be deposited in existing tailings storage facilities. A total of... Read more...Last updated: July 8, 2024
Alliance Nickel Ltd is proposing to develop the NiWest Nickel Cobalt Project, a greenfield nickel and cobalt mine located approximately 50 km southeast of Leonora, near Mount Kilkenny. The primary product of the mine, nickel sulphate, is to be exported for use in the manufacturing of batteries in electric vehicles. The proposal includes the development of mine pits and associated infrastructure, including but not limited to, a borefield, temporary waste rock landforms, accommodation camp, and... Read more...Last updated: October 2, 2023
Bulletin Resources Limited are proposing a mineral exploration programme on exploration licence 74/655 within the Shire of Ravensthorpe. The proposal is within the Cocanarup Timber Reserve located to the west of the Ravensthorpe townsite. The proposal would include a total disturbance footprint of of 7 hectares for tracks and drill pads developed in two stages. Read more...Last updated: June 27, 2022
Marda Operations Pty Ltd propose to develop a gold mining project, approximately 140 kilometres north of the town of Southern Cross within the Shire of Yilgarn. The proposal will include mining below the groundwater table by conventional open cut methods and ore will be transported offsite for processing. The proposal also includes a waste rock landform, mine ore pad, topsoil and low grade stockpiles and supporting infrastructure. The proposal is adjacent to the proposed Die Hardy Range... Read more...Last updated: May 30, 2022
The Bellevue Gold Project is a historic gold mining operation located approximately 40 kilometres north of Leinster in the Northern Goldfields region. The proposal is for the recommencement of operations at the Bellevue Gold Project and involves extensions to existing mines and excavation of new open pits, associated mine dewatering, onsite processing and waste disposal. The proposal requires a disturbance of 363.2 hectares (ha) within a development envelope of 1,030 ha. The proposed life of... Read more...Last updated: November 8, 2021
The proposal is for the dewatering of up to 1 gigalitre per annum from the existing underground component of the Bellevue Gold Mine, to allow safe access for exploration drilling. This will occur on mining leases M36/24 and M36/25, 40km NW of Leinster. Read more...Last updated: September 20, 2021
Pantoro South Pty Ltd propose to recommence operations of the Norseman Gold Project located adjacent to the town of Norseman, 200 kilometres (km) south of Kalgoorlie. The proposal involves extensions to existing mines and excavation of new open pits, associated mine dewatering, onsite ore processing and waste (tailings and waste rock) disposal and the construction of additional supporting infrastructure. The total disturbance footprint of the proposal is 590 hectares (ha), comprising 150 ha... Read more...Last updated: July 26, 2021
Minara Resources Pty Ltd (Minara) propose to undertake a program of grade control drilling across the southern portion of the Irwin Hills Project, located approximately 85 kilometres (km) south-east of Laverton and approximately 120 km south-east of the existing Murrin Murrin Nickel Cobalt Project, Western Australia. The proposal would consist of clearing 312 hectares (ha) of native vegetation and utilise 29 ha of existing disturbance within a proposed 935 ha development envelope. The life of... Read more...Last updated: May 10, 2021
Norton Gold Fields Pty Ltd propose to develop the Binduli North Project located approximately ten kilometres west of the city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. The proposal includes the expansion of three existing open pits, the development of a new open pit, waste rock dumps, run of mine pads, a heap leach processing facility, processing plant infrastructure and supporting mine infrastructure. The proposal has a disturbance footprint of 924.2 ha which includes 270.1 ha of previously disturbed land and a... Read more...Last updated: April 6, 2021
Focus Minerals Ltd propose a small scale operation limited in duration for crushing and screening waste rock material from an existing waste rock dump at the Lancefield Gold Mine area. The proposal is located approximately 250 kilometres north east of Kalgoorlie. There will be approximately 1.5 hectares of clearing for a water pipeline and widening access tracks to support the mobile crushing and screening machinery. Read more...Last updated: June 24, 2019
The Shire of Esperance propose to demolish the heritage listed Esperance Tanker Jetty as it has fallen into disrepair and no longer deemed economically viable for the Shire to maintain. The Shire proposes to build a replacement jetty in close alignment with the old structure and extending 400m of its original 512m length. The old piles of the Tanker Jetty will be retained in-situ at mean sea level for the length of the old structure and three meters below the lowest astronomical tide past the... Read more...Last updated: April 1, 2019
Changes to condition 7 (Restricted areas and management of Tetratheco paynteroe ssp. paynterae at the Windarling Range) to allow future ground disturbing access to the restricted 'Area B', and condition 10 (Residual impacts and risk management measures) in terms of revised research and management offset measures for threatened flora species. Read more...Last updated: December 8, 2016
Southern Cross Goldfields Limited proposes to develop an open pit gold mine operation and gold processing plant 150 kilometres north of Southern Cross. The proposal would involve mining 1.6 million tonnes (Mt) of ore and 8.2 Mt of waste rock over a life of 2.5 years at three pit locations; Marda Central, King Brown and Golden Orb. The processing plant, tailings storage facility, and two out of four of the waste rock landforms would be located at Marda Central. The remaining two waste rock... Read more...Last updated: December 7, 2016
The proposal referred to the Environmental Protection Authority is the Hidden Secret underground Mine. Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines Pty Ltd (KCGM) proposes to mine for gold at the Hidden Secret ore body. Hidden secret is an underground ore body located east of Williamstown, 350 metres east of the Mt Charlotte underground mine. The Mt Charlotte Underground Mine is operated by KCGM and is located adjacent to the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, approximately 600 kilometres east of Perth. Mining... Read more...Last updated: December 7, 2016
Sirius Gold Pty Ltd proposes to establish an underground mine for nickel and copper in the Fraser Range, Shire of Dundas, 110 kilometres east of Norseman The total proposed area of ground disturbance is approximately 1,100 hectares (ha) comprising 400 ha for the mine and 700 ha for the access road and associated borrow pits. The proposed mine is located in the Great Western Woodlands and in an area remote from human settlements. Product would be transported from the mine by truck in closed... Read more...Last updated: August 8, 2016
The Wilderness Society of WA Inc. referred this proposal to the EPA on the basis of there being no management plan for the wild sandalwood industry, and concerns about the sustainability of the sandalwood industry. The Forest Products Commission of Western Australia (FPC) proposes to undertake the commercial harvesting of wild sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) from Crown lands at a rate of up to 1125 tonnes per year of green sandalwood and 1125 tonnes per year of dead sandalwood, for a period... Read more...Last updated: August 5, 2013
Esperance Port Sea and Land proposes to undertake maintenance dredging in the Port of Esperance to return the bathymetry to design depth, with disposal of most sediments to an offshore disposal site and some sediments to an onshore disposal area. Read more...