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Last updated: September 10, 2012
The most significant impact of the proposed resource extraction involves the clearing of 219 hectares of native vegetation. A beneficial outcome of the proposal is the retention of 218ha of remnant native vegetation for conservation purposes, which includes: • Bush Forever sites 293 and 384 (119ha); and • Threatened Ecological Community (FCT 26a) and Priority Ecological Community (FCT24) (99ha). Read more...Last updated: March 28, 2012
The proposal is to construct and operate a second port (Port B) at Cape Lambert to process and export up to 130 million tonnes of ore per annum. Read more...Last updated: March 12, 2012
The proposal is for the mining of a 53-hectare area and processing of approximately 1.3 million tonnes of gypsum recovered from Mining Lease 70/1161 using the facilities currently employed for operations in the adjacent Mining Lease 70/750. The proposal involves dredging and will form a permanent hypersaline water body of approximately four metres maximum depth. Dredging operations are proposed to be undertaken every second year over a 2 to 4 week period to excavate approximately 100,000 tonnes... Read more...Last updated: January 9, 2012
The proposal consists of a designated mining area containing two open pits, integrated waste and tailings landform, ore beneficiating plant and workshops, a combined gas pipeline spur and water pipe corridor, a services (possible water, gas, power transmission) corridor to Weld Range, the Byro Sub-basin Borefield and the Murchison Palaeochannel Borefield, a power station, airstrip, village and ancillaries. The Jack Hills Expansion Project is contiguous with the Stage 1 mine. Read more...