Yakabindie Nickel Project (s46) [989]

Inquiry under s46 regarding a request to alter the existing environmental conditions of Ministerial Statement 117 to accommodate the following three changes:

• Extension of the eastern waste rock dump into a section (Six Mile Well block) of the Wanjarri Nature Reserve under an arrangement with the State which involves the permanent addition of a similar area of land to the nature reserve and eventual return of the Six Mile Well Block to the Wanjarri Nature Reserve.
• Establishment of a downstream hydrometallurgical processing plant within the currently approved concentrator area.
• Integration of the tailings dam with the Goliath North waste dump so as to form a single operating unit.