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Last updated: August 27, 2024
Australian Gold Reagents Pty Ltd propose to increase production at the existing Kwinana sodium cyanide liquid plant from 91,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) to a total of 110,000 tpa; and to increase production of solid sodium cyanide from 45,000 tpa up to 60,000 tpa. The proposal also includes connecting the two existing thermal combustion units to allow waste gas from either plant during down time to be directed through a combined header to the operational thermal combustion unit for effective... Read more...Last updated: May 18, 2020
Changes to condition 2 (Proponent Commitments), condition 4 (Compliance Audit and Performance Review), condition 5 (Decommissioning Plan), condition 6, (Review of Options for the Transport of Solid Sodium Cyanide), condition 7 (Transport of Solid Sodium Cyanide), condition 8 (Transport of Liquid Sodium Cyanide), condition 9 (Noise Management), condition 10 (Emissions Verification) and condition 11 (Cyanide Monitoring). Read more...Last updated: November 8, 2019
Australian Gold Reagents Pty Ltd (AGR) proposes to expand the capacity of its solid sodium cyanide manufacturing plant from 25 000 tonnes per annum (tpa) to 45 000 tpa Read more...Last updated: November 25, 2004
Australian Gold Reagents Pty Ltd (AGR) proposes a review of its Ministerial conditions relating to the manufacture, storage and transport of sodium cyanide in order to clarify their intent, remove obsolete or confusing aspects, update standard conditions and consolidate the relevant conditions into one Statement. Read more...Last updated: August 5, 2002
AGR is a joint venture between Wesfarmers CSBP Limited and Coogee Chemicals Pty Ltd which was formed to manufacture and market sodium cyanide. The AGR facility is located at Wesfarmers CSBP's fertiliser and chemicals complex in Kwinana (Figure 1). It currently operates two liquid sodium cyanide plants which have a combined production capacity of 50,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of pure (100 percent) sodium cyanide, with the potential to expand to 70,000 tpa. These plants produce sodium... Read more...Last updated: December 6, 2001
Inquiry under section 46 of the, Environmental Protection Act 1986, to change in Ministerial Conditions to allow for the installation and operation of a downstream solids processing plant. Background: Australian Gold Reagents Pty Ltd (AGR) is a joint venture between Wesfarmers CSBP Limited (CSBP) and Coogee Chemicals Pty Ltd and was formed to manufacture and market sodium cyanide. It is located south-east of CSBP's operations and to the west of Coogee Chemicals. AGR currently operates two... Read more...Last updated: May 12, 1995
In 1987 the EPA assessed a proposal by Australian Gold Reagents Pty Ltd (AGR) to construct and operate a sodium cyanide plant in Kwinana and to transport the product (30% sodium cyanide solution) by road to mine sites for gold extraction. The EPA recommended that road transportation of sodium cyanide solution was unacceptable within a "defined area of concern", which is 50km of the Perth GPO and designated surface and groundwater catchment areas. Subsequently, AGR proposed rail... Read more...Last updated: March 17, 1994
Inquiry under section 46 of the, Environmental Protection Act 1986, to change the conditions for sodium cyanide plant debottlenecking Read more...Last updated: March 15, 1991
In December 1988 Australian Gold Reagents Pty Ltd produced a Public Environmental Review document describing its proposal to expand its existing sodium cyanide solution plant at Kwinana and increase its annual production from 15,000 tonnes per annum to 40,000 tonnes per annum. In its assessment, the Environmental Protection Authority concluded that the only issue not fully addressed was that of risks and hazards. The proposal only quantitatively addressed risks and hazards for a 30,000 tonnes... Read more...Last updated: July 15, 1989
Proposal by Australian Gold Reagents Pty Ltd to double the size of its existing sodium cyanide plant at Kwinana to a capacity of 30,000 tonnes of sodium cyanide per annum and to use existing rail/road routes to transport it as a 30% solution to gold mines in the state. Read more...