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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...

Sandy Ridge Facility (S46) [2241]

Last updated: September 24, 2020

Change to implementation conditions relating to financial assurance requirements. Read more...

Proposed Rare Earths Mining and Beneficiation at Mt Weld, Laverton and Secondary Processing at Meenaar, near Northam (s46)

Last updated: September 16, 2020

Ashton Rare Earths Pty Ltd wishes to extend the time limit of environmental approval for the proposed Rare Earths Mining and Beneficiation at Mt Weld and Secondary Processing at Meenaar project for a further three years. 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...

Koolyanobbing Range F Deposit (s46) [2198]

Last updated: May 6, 2020

Changes to conditions 8 (Stage 1 offsets) and 9 (Access to Stage 2 mining area) to allow full ground disturbance access to the Stage 2 mining area based on progress to date, and condition 10 (Stage 2 offsets) in terms of offsetting significant residual impact. Read more...

Demolition and reconstruction of the Esperance Tanker Jetty

Last updated: June 24, 2019

The Shire of Esperance propose to demolish the heritage listed Esperance Tanker Jetty as it has fallen into disrepair and no longer deemed economically viable for the Shire to maintain. The Shire proposes to build a replacement jetty in close alignment with the old structure and extending 400m of its original 512m length. The old piles of the Tanker Jetty will be retained in-situ at mean sea level for the length of the old structure and three meters below the lowest astronomical tide past the... Read more...

Windarling range; Mt Jackson Range and Deception Deposit (S46) [2199]

Last updated: April 1, 2019

Changes to condition 7 (Restricted areas and management of Tetratheco paynteroe ssp. paynterae at the Windarling Range) to allow future ground disturbing access to the restricted 'Area B', and condition 10 (Residual impacts and risk management measures) in terms of revised research and management offset measures for threatened flora species. Read more...

Sandy Ridge Project

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...

Gruyere Gold Project

Last updated: April 18, 2018

Gold Road Resources Limited propose to develop a gold mine know as the Gruyere Gold Project located approximately 200 km north-east of Laverton. The proposal includes clearing of no more than 2,260 ha of vegetation and groundwater dewatering for mining and processing. Read more...

Yilgarn Operations, Koolyanobbing Range F Deposit

Last updated: January 25, 2017

The proponent proposes to extend its existing Yilgarn mining operations to include the Koolyanobbing Range F Deposit (the proposal), located on the southern Koolyanobbing Range, approximately 50 kilometres (km) north-east of the town of Southern Cross. 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...

Marda Gold Project

Last updated: December 8, 2016

Southern Cross Goldfields Limited proposes to develop an open pit gold mine operation and gold processing plant 150 kilometres north of Southern Cross. The proposal would involve mining 1.6 million tonnes (Mt) of ore and 8.2 Mt of waste rock over a life of 2.5 years at three pit locations; Marda Central, King Brown and Golden Orb. The processing plant, tailings storage facility, and two out of four of the waste rock landforms would be located at Marda Central. The remaining two waste rock... Read more...

KCGM Hidden Secret Project

Last updated: December 7, 2016

The proposal referred to the Environmental Protection Authority is the Hidden Secret underground Mine. Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines Pty Ltd (KCGM) proposes to mine for gold at the Hidden Secret ore body. Hidden secret is an underground ore body located east of Williamstown, 350 metres east of the Mt Charlotte underground mine. The Mt Charlotte Underground Mine is operated by KCGM and is located adjacent to the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, approximately 600 kilometres east of Perth. Mining... Read more...

Nova Nickel Project

Last updated: December 7, 2016

Sirius Gold Pty Ltd proposes to establish an underground mine for nickel and copper in the Fraser Range, Shire of Dundas, 110 kilometres east of Norseman The total proposed area of ground disturbance is approximately 1,100 hectares (ha) comprising 400 ha for the mine and 700 ha for the access road and associated borrow pits. The proposed mine is located in the Great Western Woodlands and in an area remote from human settlements. Product would be transported from the mine by truck in closed... 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...

Carina Iron Ore Mine

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...

Wild Sandalwood Harvesting on Crown lands (2016 - 2026)

Last updated: August 8, 2016

The Wilderness Society of WA Inc. referred this proposal to the EPA on the basis of there being no management plan for the wild sandalwood industry, and concerns about the sustainability of the sandalwood industry. The Forest Products Commission of Western Australia (FPC) proposes to undertake the commercial harvesting of wild sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) from Crown lands at a rate of up to 1125 tonnes per year of green sandalwood and 1125 tonnes per year of dead sandalwood, for a period... Read more...

Gidji Gold Processing Plant, near Kalgoorlie (s46)

Last updated: June 30, 2016

The proposal is for the operation of a gold concentrate processing plant and associated infrastructure at Gidji approximately 17 km north of the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Inquiry under s46 in regard to changing the implementation conditions of Ministerial Statement 28 and Ministerial Statement 77 . Read more...

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