Project Proponent Anglo American Pacific Limited Proposal description 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 circuit. The loaded carbon would be transferred to a gold eluation circuit and the gold bullion would be recovered by electrolytic deposition. The retreated tailings would be disposed of in a new tailings storage. The tailings storage approximately 300 ha in area would be located in a sandalwood Reserve vested in the Department of Conservation and Land Management. The project would treat 12,000 tonnes per day for up to fourteen years. Assessment Number 93 Region Goldfields Esperance Referred under EP Act s38 Industry sector Gold Last updated June 03, 1988 Current Status Ministerial Statement published 2. Decision on whether to assess this proposal Chair's Determination Assess - Public Environmental Review 3. Assessment Environmental Review Environmental Review documentation PER document (PDF, 6.24 MB) 4. EPA Report on assessment EPA Report Number 334 EPA Report Kalgoorlie tailings retreatment project (PDF, 2.27 MB) Date published Tuesday, 31 May, 1988 5. Decision on proposal and implementation of proposal Ministerial Statement Date of approval Friday, 3 June, 1988 Ministerial Statement Ministerial Statement 30 (PDF, 83.11 KB) Post-assessment changes Section 46 inquiry Kalgoorlie tailings retreatment project (s46)
