Minemakers gets enviro nod for Wonarah technology
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – The Northern Territory Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has approved the mining management plan of ASX- and TSX-listed Minemakers’ Wonarah improved hard process (IHP) project.
Minemakers was hoping to employ IHP technology at the Wonarah project to beneficiate phosphate rock.
In order to advance the Wonarah bankable feasibility study (BFS), Minemakers has been engaged in a technical study with IHP developer JDCPhosphate (JDCP) to define the Wonarah IHP circuit at a preliminary feasibility study level, prior to validation of the IHP demonstration plant, and then at a BFS level, post validation of the IHP.
The work was being managed by JDCP in the US, and the product of the work would comprise the portion of the complete BFS covering the upgrading of mined, beneficiated phosphate rock to superphosphoric acid production, using the IHP technology.
The phosphate developer said on Tuesday that the EPA had now concluded that the IHP project did not require further assessment under the Environmental Assessment Act.
“We are very pleased with this approval from the EPA as it is an important positive step in the development of the Wonarah IHP project, and removes the need for the preparation and processing of an additional environmental-impact statement, and its associated time and costs,” said Minemakers MD Cliff Lawrenson.
“The mining management plan assessment process by no means diminishes Minemakers’ responsibility to adhere to all the terms of approval and recommendations arising out of this process, and we will develop our mining management plan with diligence and respect,” Lawrenson added.
With work focusing on the IHP project, Minemakers has delayed the outcome of the Wonarah BFS from the first quarter of 2014, to later in the year.
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