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Sorby Hills Silver Lead Zinc Project

Last updated: December 18, 2024

The proposal is to develop a silver, lead and zinc mine, associated infrastructure and processing facilities approximately 50 kilometres north of Kununurra, with the concentrate produced transported by road and shipped through Wyndham Port. Read more...

Browns Range Rare Earth Project

Last updated: August 26, 2024

A proposed rare earth elements (REE) mine and ore processing facility at Browns Range, approximately 160 kilometres (km) southeast of Halls Creek in the Shire of Halls Creek. Read more...

Coyote Gold Mine – Stage 2 (Sandpiper and Kookaburra Open Pits and Haul Road) 280km South-East of Halls Creek

Last updated: February 23, 2024

The proposal, located 280km south east of Halls Creek and 20km west of the Western Australian-Northern Territory border, involves producing approximately 400,000t of ore for gold production from two open pits, Sandpiper and Kookaburra. The ore will be provided for blending with ore from underground mining at the existing operation (Coyote Stage 1). No crushing or processing will be conducted on site and infrastructure will be minimal. Both pits will be mined below the watertable and will not be... Read more...

Thunderbird Mineral Sands Project

Last updated: November 8, 2022

Sheffield Resources Limited is seeking approval to develop the Thunderbird Mineral Sands Project located on the Dampier Peninsula, approximately 75 kilometres southwest of Derby, Western Australia. The proposal is for a mineral sands operation with an estimated 40 year life of mine. Mineral product will be mined from the Thunderbird Deposit and processed onsite before being transported by road to the Derby Wharf for storage and subsequent export. Read more...

Carlton Plain - Stage 1

Last updated: September 1, 2021

Kimberley Agricultural Investment (KAI) Pty Ltd proposes to develop 3086 hectares of land for the purposes of perennial and annual cropping, including grains, cotton and horticulture (which may include citrus and/or mango trees or other tree crops). The proposal is located between House Roof Hill and the Ord River, approximately 40 kilometres north-west of Kununurra, in the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley. Carlton Plains Stage 1 forms the initial component of the staged development of four... Read more...

Shamrock Station Irrigation Project

Last updated: November 19, 2018

Argyle Cattle Company Pty Ltd proposes to disturb up to to 1,200 ha of native vegetation for 650 ha of irrigated pasture and fodder and associated infrastructure. The proposal is located 64 km south of Broome on the Great Northern Highway, in the Shire of Broome. Read more...

Pardoo Irrigated Agriculture Project – Stage 3

Last updated: July 25, 2018

Pardoo Beef Corporation Pty Ltd proposes to develop a centre-pivot irrigated feed crop production facility. Centre-pivot irrigation is a method of crop irrigation in which equipment rotates around a pivot and crops are watered with sprinklers. The proposal is approximately 100km east-northeast of Port Hedland and 365km south west of Broome. The proposal is for stage 3 and would include a total disturbance of 368 hectares development envelope. Read more...

Ellendale 4 Diamond Project, West Kimberley

Last updated: February 9, 2015

The proposal is for the construction and operation of a diamond mine, power station and processing plant within Mining Lease 04/372 in the West Kimberley area 140 kilometres east of Derby, to process approximately 4.4 million tonnes per annum of ore. Read more...

Ord River Irrigation Area Stage 2 (M2 supply channel) (s. 46) [1941]

Last updated: June 12, 2013

Inquiry under s46 - request to to amend Ministerial Statement 830 to contemporise and rationalise existing conditions. Read more...

Ord River Irrigation Area Stage 2 (M2 Supply Channel), Kununurra - Management

Last updated: February 6, 2002

The proposal is to develop a raw sugar industry on the Weaber, Keep River and Knox Creek Plains. The M2 Project is located near Kununurra within the Victoria-Bonaparte Biogeographic Region and the project area extends over approximately 76,000 ha of land comprising the Weaber, Keep River and Knox Creek Plains, and involves approximately equal areas within WA and the NT. The proposal has been assessed in two parts: biodiversity and management. This assessment is of the management component. See... Read more...

Ord River Irrigation Area Stage 2 (M2 Supply Channel), Kununurra - Biodiversity

Last updated: February 6, 2002

The proposal is to develop a raw sugar industry on the Weaber, Keep River and Knox Creek Plains. The M2 Project is located near Kununurra within the Victoria-Bonaparte Biogeographic Region and the project area extends over approximately 76,000 ha of land comprising the Weaber, Keep River and Knox Creek Plains, and involves approximately equal areas within WA and the NT. The proposal has been assessed in two parts: biodiversity and management. This assessment is of the biodiversity. See here for... Read more...

Relocation of Broome International Airport

Last updated: November 14, 2001

The proposed airport will be located in a site approximately 12 km north-east of Broome townsite. The proposal involves the construction of one main runway, parallel taxiway, turning nodes, apron parking, general aviation parking, maintenance and storage hangers and fuel storage. It also includes domestic and international terminals, land-side and airside commercial activities and a short future parallel runway for light aircraft. Read more...

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