Kintyre (Rudall River) Uranium Mine to go Ahead?
Submitted: Wednesday, Feb 05, 2014 at 21:40
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Member - John Baas (WA)
Hi all.
Some of you RR tragics might be interested in the following links.
Cons Council AlertERMP ContentsScoping Document
Cheers.
Reply By: Member - Barry H (WA) - Thursday, Feb 06, 2014 at 13:58
Thursday, Feb 06, 2014 at 13:58
Hi
John,
If they go ahead with this project, it is gonna piss Member Mick O off big time, he loves that place.
Regards
Barry H
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Reply By: Mick O - Thursday, Feb 06, 2014 at 15:46
Thursday, Feb 06, 2014 at 15:46
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Follow Up By: Member - Michael A (ACT) - Thursday, Feb 06, 2014 at 15:58
Thursday, Feb 06, 2014 at 15:58
agree totally why touch pristine oz parks, cant they leave the country alone rather than chop up any more to sell overseas
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Follow Up By: rocco2010 - Thursday, Feb 06, 2014 at 16:31
Thursday, Feb 06, 2014 at 16:31
Michael A
In case you and other people missed it, this project is outside the park, the area having been excised back in 1994 in the wake of the discovery of the uranium in a drilling program some years before.
Why you would be allowed to drill in a national park in the first place is another question.
The fact that after all these years it is still only a proposal gives some hope to those up us who are not big fans of uranium mining.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Thursday, Feb 06, 2014 at 19:07
Thursday, Feb 06, 2014 at 19:07
Hi
I think at the time the Government passed some law that allowed exploration within three specific national parks. Not sure of all three but D'Entrecasteaux was one of them (I was Exploration Geo on that one), I am assuming Rudall was another. Not allowed under current laws though lower class
reserves are OK (generally speaking). Unfortunate fact of life is that (economic) mineral resources are located where you find them, some of these
places also have other values so conflict arises.
Cheers
Greg
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Follow Up By: Mick O - Friday, Feb 07, 2014 at 07:17
Friday, Feb 07, 2014 at 07:17
Greg, how would you access a plan of the proposed pit within the Kintire lease? I'd love to see just where it sits given some of the amazing petroglyphs sites we found on the western edge of the area where it borders the first of the Throsell Ranges.
Mick
(Minus 36C today! Warming up lol)
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Friday, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:22
Friday, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:22
Hello - thought you'd be out chasing beaver...anyway
Plans are provided in the various ERMP/Scoping documents - plus you could download the tenement boundaries from the DMP website...but I have taken the
liberty to do some of this work for you...below is a map of the "Project Area" plotted on the Hema
Rudall River map sheet.
Uranium Mine Project Area
Here is a plan of the project area in more detail showing Pit location and other
infrastructure (this may not be 100% current as mining engineers have a habit of changing the location of everything to keep themselves in a job :)
Project Area
Looks like its located more on the "flats" than in the ranges. 250K Map
250K
Cheers
Greg
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Follow Up By: Mick O - Friday, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:28
Friday, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:28
Thanks Greg. We were fortunate enough to explore this area back in 2008 before they set up survey
camp in 2010. The area on the
western boundary of the lease has some significant sites with great glyphs. Blog below covers a few photos from the area. I'd hate to think of them being destroyed given their cultural and historical significance.
Turtle Rockhole
Cheers. Mick.
(Beavers all frozen over mate. Thought you knew my wife ;-)
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Reply By: equinox - Thursday, Feb 06, 2014 at 21:33