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Last updated: March 23, 2025
Italia Stone Group proposes to develop a hard rock quarry at Lot 800 Pruden Road Whitby, approximately 3.5 kilometres east of Mundijong in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale. The proposed quarry is on freehold land and is for the extraction of 50,000 to 100,000 tonnes of hard rock per annum for a period of 20 years. The material will be extracted by drill and blast methods and hauled by truck to a processing area for crushing and stockpiling on site. Read more...Last updated: April 5, 2022
Doyles Lime Service Pty Ltd proposes limestone and sand excavation approximately 4.5 km north of the Preston Beach townsite, Shire of Waroona. Read more...Last updated: July 28, 2021
Hanson Australia Pty Ltd (formerly Rocla Pty Ltd) proposes to extract sand within Bush Forever Site 390, on mining tenements M70/1142 and M70/1088 approximately 20km South of Perth at Lot 467 Jandakot Road, Banjup (City of Cockburn). The proposal would include: - a development envelope of 9.56 hectares (ha), including 5.63 ha that has been historically cleared; - clearing of 3.93 ha of native vegetation; - sand extraction of 300,000 tonnes over a period of approximately three years; - dry... Read more...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: November 30, 2016
The Department of Minerals and Petroleum has referred a Programme of Work application. The application, from Holcim (Australia) Pty Ltd, is to undertake an air core drilling exploration programme on M70/1248 and M70/1250. The exploration site is cleared pine plantation to the East of Lake Jandabup. Read more...Last updated: July 4, 2016
Urban Resources Pty Ltd proposes to develop a sand quarry on tenement M70/1262, located in Karnup approximately 48 kilometres (km) south of the Perth Central Business District. The proposal would extract 1.5 million cubic metres over a project life of around five years with a total disturbance footprint of around 42 hectares including the mining area, stockpiles, a haul road and site compound. The proponent has advised that the overall post-mining land use is expected to be consistent with the... Read more...Last updated: May 25, 2015
The proposal is to recommence quarrying at Pivot Hill (M80/618(P) & L80/63(P)). It involves the extraction of up to 45,000 tonnes per year of basalt for use as aggregates in civil works. This would require 4.4 hectares (ha) of clearing of native vegetation in addition to the existing 2.45 hectares of previously disturbed land, within a Mining Lease covering 45 ha. Crushing and screening of aggregates would be undertaken at the site. The proponent has proposed a duration of 10 years... Read more...Last updated: March 4, 2015
The extraction of silica sands from two new areas and the transfer of the ownership of land which contains the Muchea Limestone Communities Threatened Ecological Community to the conservation estate. Inquiry under s46 in regard to amending Ministerial Statements 703 and 920 . Read more...Last updated: April 29, 2013
The development and operation of a quarry. Inquiry under s46 to delete conditions 11, 12 and 17 of Ministerial Statement 706 and condition 6 of Ministerial Statement 872 . Read more...Last updated: January 4, 2013
Kemerton Silica Sand Mining Proposal, additional mining areas and transfer of land for conservation - section 46 request for change to implementation conditions of Ministerial Statement 703 . Read more...Last updated: November 2, 2009
Midland Brick Company Pty Ltd (Midland Brick) referred a proposal to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) on 3 May 2002 to indefinitely extend the time limit of its environmental approval for its clay excavation operation at Hallet and Copley Roads, Upper Swan and to expand the environmental approval to include Lot 19 Copley Road, Lots 19, 45 and 46 St Albans Road and Lot 100 Great Northern Highway, Upper Swan for further clay excavation operations. The new areas to be included in the... Read more...Last updated: May 15, 2009
The proponent, A D Contractors Pty Ltd, proposes to quarry granite at Lot 2036, Bird Road Torbay. The subject property is located in the City of Albany and is zoned rural under the Town Planning Scheme. Read more...Last updated: May 12, 2003
Cable Sands (WA) Pty Ltd proposal to develop a mineral sands mine in a section of State Forest No.2, near Ludlow. Read more...Last updated: July 9, 1999
Proposal to mine peat in Lake Tamworth which is located in Baldivis, approximately 40kms south of Perth. The lake is listed for protection in the Environmental Protection (Swan Coastal Plain Lakes) Policy which prohibits unauthorised filling, mining, drainage or effluent discharge into nominated wetlands. Read more...Last updated: June 23, 1992
Swan Portland Cement propose to quarry limestone and construct and operate a quicklime plant in the Nowergup area, approximately 13 km north of Wanneroo. Read more...Last updated: May 13, 1992
An application for Renewal of Excavation Licence by Midland Brick Company Ltd was referred to the Environmental Protection Authority by the Shire of Swan in August 1990. the Authority assessed the environmental impact of the proposal by way of a Consultative Environmental Review in conjunction with four other nearby clay excavation proposals which, together with this proposal were thought to potentially impact on Ellen Brook Nature Reserve and to have common regional issues of rehabilitation... Read more...Last updated: December 21, 1991
Proposal to remove an estimated 295,650 m 3 of sand from a pastured hill which runs east-west along the northern boundary of Lot 242 Corio Road, Pinjarra. Read more...