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Wingellina Nickel Project

Last updated: November 25, 2024

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...

Medcalf Vanadium Project

Last updated: July 4, 2024

Audalia Resources Limited (Audalia) is proposing to construct and operate a vanadium, titanium and iron ore mine approximately 100 kilometres (km) west of Norseman, Western Australia (WA). The Medcalf Project, located in the Bremer Range, Lake Johnston region of Western Australia, approximately 470 km east south-east of Perth. The proposal includes three separate open pits and requires up to 650 ha of native vegetation clearing. Mining will occur above groundwater. The proposal includes the... Read more...

Lake Wells Potash Project

Last updated: February 1, 2021

Australian Potash Limited proposes to abstract brine resources to produce a sulfate of potash (SOP) product at the Lake Wells Potash Project. The proposal area is located on and adjacent to the Lake Wells Playa Lake system (salt lake terrain), approximately 160km north-northeast of Laverton in Western Australia. The proposal would include construction of an SOP processing plant, brine abstraction bores, evaporation ponds, raw water bore field, accommodation village and other associated... Read more...

Mt Keith Satellite Project

Last updated: September 16, 2020

BHP Billiton Nickel West (BHPB) proposes to develop the Mt Keith Satellite Project (the proposal), to the existing Mount Keith Mining Operations. The proposal is located approximately 80 km north of Leinster in the Shire of Leonora. The proposal includes clearing of up to 842 hectares of native vegetation (which is also fauna habitat) for two open pits, a Waste Rock Landform and a transport corridor, with minor ancillary infrastructure to support the mining process. Read more...

Cyclone Mineral Sands Project

Last updated: January 9, 2017

Lost Sands Pty Ltd (Lost Sands) proposes to develop and operate the Cyclone Mineral Sands Project, located on the northern margin of the Eucla Basin, approximately 317 kilometres (km) north of Eucla and 220 km north of the Trans-Australia Railway. The proposal is for a mining operation to produce zircon and two high titanium mineral products. The conceptual layout of the mine includes open cut pits, mining and processing infrastructure, airstrip, camp and bore fields. The proposal is located in... Read more...

Gold Mine Developments on Lake Lefroy [1809]

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...

Mulga Rock Uranium Project

Last updated: December 16, 2016

The proposal is to mine four poly-metallic deposits containing commercial concentrations of uranium and to produce uranium oxide concentrate and other metal concentrates including copper, zinc, nickel and cobalt, approximately 240km east-northeast of Kalgoorlie. The proposal also includes the construction of associated mine infrastructure consisting of mine dewatering and reinjection infrastructure (including borefields and pipelines), non-mineralised overburden landforms, run of mine stockpile... Read more...

Clearing of approximately 300 ha of native vegetation for livestock grazing, Lot 92 Coolinup Road, Shire of Esperance

Last updated: December 6, 2016

The proposal is to clear approximately 300 hectares (ha) of native vegetation for grazing of livestock on Lot 92 Coolinup Road, located approximately 50 kilometres east-northeast of Esperance, in the Shire of Esperance. Read more...

Ularring Hematite Project

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...

Wallaby Gold Mine Project

Last updated: June 23, 2006

Proposal to develop the Wallaby Gold Mine. Located on the shore of Lake Carey, a naturally occurring saline wetland approximately 27 km south-west of Laverton. The Wallaby Gold Mine Project includes development of an open cut gold mine, waste rock dumps and infrastructure to support mining on the northern shoreline of the lake. Gold ore produced at the mine will be transported via overland conveyor to an existing processing plant with tailings placed in both an extended and a new tailings... Read more...

Phillips River Gold Project

Last updated: March 28, 2006

The proposal is for the developing of mining operations at the areas of Trilogy and Kundip, construction of a haul road, construction and operation of a processing plant, and disposal of tailings at the RAV 8 site. Read more...

Mt Margaret Nickel-Cobalt Project

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...

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