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Last updated: October 12, 1988
The location of the existing Mundaring Primary School on the corner of Stoneville Road and Great Eastern Highway is considered by the Shire of Mundaring to be inappropriate for several reasons, including traffic noise, safety and location of student population. It has therefore been proposed that the school be relocated to Pt Location 1699 Stevens Street. The land is currently zoned Rural in the Shire of Mundaring Town Planning Scheme No 1. The school would be located on a 4 hectare site to be... Read more...Last updated: October 3, 1988
The proposal is to establish a heavy mineral sand mining and processing operation. The proposed minesite is located at Cooljarloo near Cataby, approximately 170 km north of Perth. Initial processing at the site would produce a heavy mineral concentrate which is proposed to be transported by road to a dry processing plant at Muchea 40 km north of Perth. Mining of the deposits would be carried out using a single stage suction dredge to mine the upper level strands. A second dredge would then be... Read more...Last updated: October 2, 1988
Wesfarmers LPG Pty Ltd are currently constructing an LPG extraction facility at Kwinana, adjacent to Mason Road, and opposite the proposed site for the Petrochemical Industries Company Limited (PICL) proposal. The facility is designed to extract 150,000 tonnes per annum of propane and butane, with the intention of returning the remaining gases, principally methane and ethane, to the natural gas pipeline for sale to traditional natural gas customers. The supply of ethane is essential to the... Read more...Last updated: October 2, 1988
This initial proposal is establish an integrated petrochemical complex at Kwinana. The proposed complex would utilise natural gas and industrial salt to produce a range of products for overseas and local markets. Vinyl chloride monomer and ethylene dichloride would be exported, and caustic soda and hydrogen gas would be sold to other industries already operating in Kwinana. The proponent submitted a Notice of Intent to the Environmental Protection Authority in March 1987, indicating the nature... Read more...Last updated: October 1, 1988
Worsley Alumina has submitted a proposal to upgrade the existing Boddington Gold Mine facilities by increasing the maximum daily process plant throughput from 12,000 tonnes per day to 16,000 tonnes per day Read more...Last updated: September 30, 1988
The proposal is to extract 400,000 tonnes of limestone from Reserve C39584. The proposal includes plans for the quarried area to be recontoured and rehabilitated to an 18 hole golf course, funded by the sale of the limestone. Reserve C39584 is located on situated within System 6 Report proposed Beeliar Regional Park. The EPA concluded that the proposal to extract limestone from Reserve C39584 and rehabilitate to a golf course is environmentally unacceptable and recommended that it not proceed... Read more...Last updated: September 30, 1988
The proposal is to establish a Rare Earth Treatment Plant at Pinjarra in Western Australia. The proposal has two stages. The first stage would treat the monazite with caustic to produce a solid containing rare earth hydroxides and a calcium phosphate waste. The second stage would treat the solid containing the rare earth hydroxide to produce rare earth salts, thorium waste and the ammonium nitrate waste., Note:, Upon consideration of this proposal the Environmental Protection Authority... Read more...Last updated: September 28, 1988
The proposal is to produce 750,000 tonnes of woodchips per year for 15 years in the South West of the State from five sources: Low-grade logs from State Forest Regrowth thinnings in State Forest Saw mill residues Plantations on private property Native vegetation on private property The majority of the resource comes from State Forest managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management. Read more...Last updated: September 1, 1988
Club Head Australia has submitted a proposal to the City of Cockburn to extract 400,000 tonnes of limestone from Reserve C39584. The proposal includes plans for the quarried area to be recontoured and rehabilitated to an 18 hole golf course, funded by the sale of limestone. Read more...Last updated: August 2, 1988
The proposal is to establish a $450 million ammonia/urea facility in the Kwinana industrial area which will produce 500 000 tonnes per annum (t/a) of ammonia . Approximately half of this ammonia is proposed to be utilised to manufacture 430 000 t/a of urea. The proposal calls for the storage of 30 000 tonnes of ammonia. The bulk of the finished product is proposed to be exported. Read more...Last updated: July 27, 1988
The proposal is for a ceramics plant at Malaga, approximately 12 km north of Perth. The proposal involves using up to 7000 tonnes/annum of clay, schist, talc, feldspar and quartz for the production of assay crucibles, cups, and possibly tableware. The proposed site for the plant is in Victoria Road, in the Malaga industrial area. The site is surrounded by industrial land. The distance from the site to the closest residential area is over 800 m., Note:, This proposal was divided into Assessment... Read more...Last updated: July 26, 1988
The Geraldton Foreshore Redevelopment is proposed by the Department of Marine and Harbours, Western Australia (referred to here as the proponent) in association with the Town (now City) of Geraldton, Westrail, and the Geraldton Mid-West Development Authority, to redevelop a seafront site of approximately 17 ha in the Geraldton townsite presently used by Westrail as a railway marshalling yard, into a recreation and tourist facility and small boat harbour. Read more...Last updated: June 23, 1988
The proposal is to subdivide and develop Lot 1 Stephenson Avenue, City Beach, for residential purposes. It is zoned 'urban' under the Metropolitan Region Scheme and 'Development Zone' under the Nedlands City Planning Scheme. The land is approximately 19 ha in area and the residential estate would be known as "Knightsbridge". Lot 1 Stephenson Avenue is contained within the boundary of the Government endorsed System 6 Recommendation M47. The EPA's System 6... Read more...Last updated: June 3, 1988
The proposal is to develop a project which would reprocess old gold tailing dumps located in the Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie. Anglo American Pacific Limited plans to treat 32.5 million tonnes which may increase to 57 million tonnes if additional dumps are incorporated. The project would mine the old tailings dumps using high pressure water jets from monitor guns. The slurry of tailings would be pumped from the monitor station to the plant site, and then passed through a carbon-leach/carbon in pulp... Read more...Last updated: May 27, 1988
The proposal is to establish a new iron ore mining project at Yandicoogina (Marillana) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The proposal generally involves the mining of iron ore deposits at an initial production rate of about 2 million tonnes per year, with the potential to increase production to a rate of up to 5 million tonnes per year during a projected 20 year mine life. There is, however, further potential for operations to be expanded to a much larger project beyond the scope of... Read more...Last updated: May 23, 1988
The proposal is to construct and operate a new concentrate roasting facility 17 km north north-west of the Kalgoorlie Town Centre. The proposed roaster would be required to treat approximately 190 000 tonnes per annum of concentrate. This would result in the production of 16 000 kg/hr of sulphur dioxide. A concentrate containing typically 27% iron, 33% sulphur and 35 gram per tonne of gold, would be piped as a slurry to the roaster from the proposed Fimiston Plant. The slurry would then be fed... Read more...Last updated: May 10, 1988
The existing sites used by Swan Wool Scouring and Fremantle Steam Laundry, are proposed to be redeveloped by the Superannuation Board of WA (now Government Employees Superannuation Board) and Saland Pty Ltd, necessitating the relocation of these and other industries. The proposal would see purpose-built facilities being established for Swan Wool Scouring and Fremantle Steam Laundry fronting onto Tydeman Road, and the container storage operations of Conaust Pty Ltd and Keywest Pty Ltd being... Read more...Last updated: May 9, 1988
International Brick and Tile Pty Ltd (IBT) has submitted a Notice of Intent to the Environmental Protection Authority outlining a two stage proposal to excavate clay from Lots 1, 2, 3, 10, 11 and 36 Great Northern Highway, Upper Swan. The land is east of the Ellen Brook Nature Reserve and is separated from it by Great Northern Highway. The Notice of Intent: seeks approval for Stage 1 which is a proposal for 10 to 15 years clay excavation in the western portion of Lot 36 (referred to as Pt Lot... Read more...Last updated: April 13, 1988
The proposal is for a wool scouring plant at Bakers Hill, approximately 60 km east of Perth. The proposal involves production of 5 700 tonnes of scoured wool per year, initially, followed later by top making, spinning and knitting facilities. The proposed site is 65 hectares in area, has no dwellings and is deemed suitable by appropriate local authorities. It is partly bounded by a golf course on the north side and the remainder is bounded by agricultural land. The closest residence is... Read more...Last updated: March 8, 1988
The proposal is to mine high grade iron ore from a scree and erosion fan located south of McCamey's Monster Hill. The initial output in the first year will be 3 million tonnes which will increase to 5 million tonnes in the second year. The total tonnage over the life time of the project is 34.5 million tonnes. The processing plant will consist of a series of screens to separate the ore from the waste. The product ore will be transported to Port Hedland via a haul road to the Mt Newman to... Read more...