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Last updated: January 30, 2013
The proposal is to construct and operate an iron ore mining area and associated infrastructure at the Hope Downs 4 Iron Ore Mine located approximately 30 kilometres north-west of Newman within the Shire of East Pilbara. Inquiry under s46 - request to change conditions 5-1, 8-2, 8-3, 9 and 10-2 of Ministerial Statement 854 . Read more...Last updated: January 11, 2013
Brockman Iron Pty Ltd is proposing to construct a railway line and associated infrastructure in the Hamersley Iron province in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, approximately 100 kilometres (km) north west of Newman. The railway line would be approximately 79 km in length. The proposal will connect the previously approved Brockman Marillana Iron Ore Project ( Ministerial Statement 855 ) to the existing Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) railway line. Read more...Last updated: January 11, 2013
The proposal is to develop and operate an iron ore mine on the Blacksmith tenement located approximately 70 km north-west of Tom Price in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Read more...Last updated: July 6, 2012
The proposal is to mine iron ore from the Stage 1 project area on the southern slopes of the Chichester Range and develop associated mining infrastructure. Inquiry under s46 into request to change condition 9 of Ministerial Statement 824 - Short-Range Endemic Invertebrates. Read more...Last updated: June 19, 2012
The proposal is to construct and operate approximately 70 km of duplicate rail line and supporting infrastructure from the Cape Lambert Port facilities to Emu Siding. Read more...Last updated: April 4, 2012
The proposal is to increase the throughput of iron ore to 85 million tonnes per annum at the Cape Lambert Port operations. Read more...Last updated: March 28, 2012
The original proposal, as set out in the proponent’s PER, comprised four iron ore mines in the Pilbara region, an ore beneficiation plant, a borefield, an accommodation village and 160km of east-west railway connecting to the north-south link to Port Hedland. Since release of the PER, FMG has made several major modifications to the proposal: the proposed mines at Mt Lewin and Mt Nicholas have been excised; the connecting infrastructure to those minesites is not now needed, leading to a change... 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 28, 2012
The proposal is to mine high-grade detrital iron ore from Hamersley Iron's leases on Mt Brockman station. The deposits lie at the foot of the Brockman massif some 3km from Mt Brockman and 55 km north-west of Tom Price. Ore will be extracted from one pit 1500 metres long by 500 metres wide and up to three smaller pits of about 500 metres by 200 metres. Open cut mining methods would be used, involving the stockpiling of topsoil and about 5 million tonnes of waste overburden per year, then... Read more...Last updated: February 28, 2012
The proposal is to construct and operate the Outer Harbour Development which includes landside and marine infrastructure for the handling and export of iron ore from BHPBIO’s operations. The Boodarie stockyard infrastructure will supply an overland conveyor to a transfer pad located to the west of the existing Finucane Island facilities. A piled jetty will transfer ore material to the ship loaders located at the piled wharf. Read more...Last updated: January 17, 2012
The proposal is to construct a sub sea pipeline, onshore gas treatment and compression plant, and sales gas pipeline. The subsea pipeline from the Macedon Gas Field (100 kilometres west of Onslow) connects to the onshore gas treatment and compression plant at Ashburton North (15 kilometres southwest of Onslow). The sales gas pipeline connects the onshore facility to the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas (DBNG) Pipeline. Read more...Last updated: November 1, 2011
Proposal under section 46 of the, Environmental Protection Act 1986, to change condition 8-1 of Ministerial Statement 840. Read more...Last updated: August 5, 2011
The proposal is to construct and operate a number of looping sections adjacent (and connected) to the existing underground gas transmission pipeline within the DBNGP corridor. There are eleven separate looping sections proposed from south of Dampier to Wagerup West. Read more...Last updated: June 30, 2011
The proposal is to expand existing wharf facilities to increase storage capacity and improve the efficiency of Dampier's port in general. The expansion involves the construction of a land-backed wharf, 300m jetty, lay down areas, access road and associated infrastructure. The wharf and lay down area would be constructed using reclaimed material from the dredging required to improve the approach and berthing channels. Read more...Last updated: June 2, 2011
Inquiry under s46 to amend condition 5-1 of Ministerial Statement 847 . Read more...Last updated: January 19, 2011
Inquiry under s46 into a request to change the conditions of Ministerial Statement 757 . Read more...Last updated: December 23, 2009
The construction and operation of a 44.8 million tonnes per annum iron ore mine, power station, desalination plant, processing plant and accommodation and port facilities in the Cape Preston area as documented in Schedule 1 of Statement 635. The processing plant will produce pelletised, direct-reduced iron and hot-briquetted iron. Inquiry under s46 into changing the conditions of Ministerial Statement 635. Read more...Last updated: December 4, 2009
BHP Billiton Iron Ore is proposing to construct 23 kilometres of dual track railway and associated rail infrastructure within the Chichester ranges, approximately 220 kilometres south of Port Hedland. The proposal includes clearing of 400 hectares of vegetation. The required water supply would be approximately 1000 kL/day to be sourced from two existing bores. The proposal also involves the construction of communications cabling, a communications tower, level crossings, signalling, access... Read more...Last updated: April 28, 2009
The proponent proposes to mine up to 10.1 Mtpa of magnetite ore to produce 6 Mtpa of ore concentrate over a 15 year mine life. The magnetite concentrate would be conveyed to Port Hedland from the mine via a 110 km slurry pipeline located alongside the existing Pilbara Energy Pipeline (PEPL). The concentrate would be dewatered at a purpose-built facility located at Utah Point in the Port Hedland Port area, prior to shipping overseas, where it would be used predominantly in steel manufacture. Read more...