Judicial review delays Shree’s Tasmania project
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Iron-ore developer Shree Minerals has been forced to push back the production schedule of its Nelson Bay River (NBR) project, in Tasmania, as it awaits the outcome of a judicial review.
Last month, the Tarkine National Coalition made an application for a judicial review of federal Environment Minister Tony Burke’s December approval of the NBR project.
In response to the application, the court has ordered an injunction on site works, which Shree said would delay the project start and shipments, which had initially been targeted for the middle of the year.
The company said that it hoped to be able to restart work by July, with production and shipments of direct shipping ore now targeted for around September or October.
In his environmental approval of the project, Burke imposed 29 conditions on the new mine, including the development of a site-wide management plan for the protection of nationally threatened species at the mine site and for travel to and from the mine site, and the undertaking of targeted pre-clearance surveys for the nationally listed masked owl, spotted-tailed quoll, Tasmanian devil and Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle.
The NBR project would consist of an openpit magnetite and hematite mine, producing four-million tons a year, over a ten-year life-of-mine, to produce 150 000 t of product a year.
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