Last updated: February 5, 2019
The proposal is to construct and operate a dual kaolin (clay) mine and a waste facility, accepting Class IV (Secure Landfill) and a V (Intractable Landfill) waste from all of Australia, including waste from offshore Oil and Gas facilities. The waste would include amongst other things low level radioactive wastes and persistent organic pollutants. The proposal would receive on average 100 000 tonnes of waste per annum for approximately 25 years. The proposal is located 140 kilometres west north... Read more...Last updated: February 20, 2015
The proposal is to develop the Jackson 4 (J4) deposit and construct and operate an iron ore mine and supporting infrastructure, access track and haul road in the Goldfields region of Western Australia, approximately 60 kilometres north-west of Koolyanobbing. Read more...Last updated: October 26, 2020
The proponent, Cliffs Asia Pacific Iron Ore Pty Ltd (Cliffs), owns and operates iron ore mines at the Windarling Range, the Mt Jackson Range and the Deception Deposit (collectively known as the "Yilgarn Operations") within the Shire of Yilgarn and Shire of Menzies. The Yilgarn Operations are authorised under seven Ministerial Statements issued between 2003 and 2012 by the Western Australian Minister for Environment under section 45(5) of the EP Act. These are: Ministerial Statement... Read more...Last updated: December 12, 2013
The proposal is to construct and operate an iron ore mine in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. The proposal involves mining of hematite direct shipping ore (DSO) from two open pits on the Yendilberin Hills, which form part of the Finnerty Range. Inquiry into the matter of amending condition 5-2 of Ministerial Statement 852 to remove the clearing requirement for the S2 and W22 vegetation communities. Read more...Last updated: December 6, 2013
Proposed Gold Mining at Lake Lefroy. Inquiry under s46 to amend Ministerial Statement 548 . Read more...Last updated: October 24, 2013
The proposal is to develop an iron ore mine and associated infrastructure in the Goldfields region, 450 kilometres (km) east-north-east of Perth. The proposal includes a borefield and adjoining water pipeline 60km west of the mine site and a rail siding 130km east of the mine site and 8km south of Menzies. Read more...Last updated: November 20, 2013
The proposal is to construct and operate an open cut iron ore mine and haul road at the Windarling Range W4 East Deposit, located approximately 130 kilometres north of Southern Cross. Read more...Last updated: August 29, 2012
The proposal is situated on Mining Leases M77/999 and M77/1000, approximately 130 kilometres north of Southern Cross in the Shire of Yilgarn. The proposal is to mine iron ore by open cut mining below the groundwater table in the portion of the W3/5 Deposit at Windarling Range. The depth of the open-cut mine will increase from nominally 400 metres Australian Height Datum (AHD) to nominally 315 metres AHD. Read more...Last updated: November 5, 2013
The proposal is to construct and operate an open cut iron ore mine, waste rock landform, ore stockpile, haul road and associated infrastructure, 150 kilometres north of Southern Cross. Read more...Last updated: December 30, 2016
The proposal is to expand existing open-cut and underground gold mining developments within a defined project area on the surface of Lake Lefroy, approximately 20 kilometres south east of Kambalda. The proposal includes the discharge of dewatering to the lake’s surface and the construction of associated mining infrastructure (including open pits and waste rock dumps). Read more...Last updated: September 20, 2016
The proposal is to construct and operate an iron ore mine in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. The proposal involves mining of hematite direct shipping ore (DSO) from a single open pit on the Yendilberin Hills, which form part of the Finnerty Range. Read more...Last updated: July 13, 2000
The proposal includes gold mining developments within a defined project area on Lake Lefroy a naturally occurring salt lake approximately 7 kilometres south-east of Kambalda. Thirteen sites have already been identified for development of open-cut gold mining pits, some with underground portals and mining. Additional sites may be identified within the defined project area. Waste rock dumps, access infrastructure and mining support facilities such as workshops and contractor's compounds will... Read more...Last updated: September 1, 2016
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...Last updated: July 6, 2012
The proposal is to construct and operate a 25 million tonne per annum Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility and associated Domestic Gas (Domgas) facility in the proposed Ashburton North Strategic Industrial Area (ANSIA) 12 kilometres south west of the town of Onslow. Inquiry under s46 to change conditions 6 and 8 of Ministerial Statement 873 . Read more...Last updated: August 28, 2012
The proposal is to construct and maintain a 45 kilometre (km) coastal walk trail from Point Ann to Hamersley Inlet, through the Wilderness Management Zone of the Fitzgerald River National Park. Camping facilities such as sleeping huts, water collection facilities and toilets would be constructed at camping points along the walk trail. The proposal would also require vehicle access tracks for ongoing maintenance of the walk trail, camping facilities, and emergency response. Read more...Last updated: August 3, 2005
The proposal is for the construction and operation (on a temporary basis) of six evaporation ponds (120m × 30m) in the north-eastern corner of the Mungari Industrial Estate in the Shire of Coolgardie. The effluent to be evaporated at the Mungari site will be sourced from Total Waste Management’s liquid waste treatment facility in Boulder. The effluent has a chemical oxygen demand (COD) in the range 20,000- 25,000 mg/L and a total dissolved solids (TDS) content ranging from 20,000 to 40,000 mg/L... Read more...Last updated: May 23, 2019
Inquiry under s46 into the request for a number of substantial changes to the Ravensthorpe Nickel Project, located approximately 35 km east of Ravensthorpe, the subject of Ministerial Statement 509 . In summary, the proposed changes include: mining of additional ore reserves contained within the Shoemaker-Levy and Hale-Bopp deposits and a resulting increase in clearing within the Bandalup Corridor; changes to the processing of ore and the final product: a) deletion of nickel electrowinning,... Read more...Last updated: September 14, 2001
The proposal is for a large-scale nickel and cobalt mining and processing operation which will involve the mining and processing of up to 15 million dry tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of lateritic ore to produce approximately 60,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of nickel and up to 8,000 tpa of cobalt. The ore will be mined at Marshall Pool, 55 km south-south-east of Leinster, and Lawlers, 10 km south of Leinster. Read more...Last updated: February 1, 2001
The Intractable Waste Disposal Facility (IWDF) is 75km north-east of Koolyanobbing and approximately 53km north-east of Jaurdi Station Homestead (unoccupied). The site occupies a 25km 2 Crown Reserve No. 42001 and is accessed by a 100km long dedicated unsurfaced road (Crown Reserve No. 44102) that extends northward from the Boorabbin Siding on Great Eastern Highway. This inquiry under s46 is in regard to consolidation of environmental conditions of Ministerial Statements 44 , 205 , 353 and 533... Read more...