Mine reclamation and integrated land use in the Kimberley region of Western Australia

British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium

Mine reclamation and integrated land use in the Kimberley region of Western Australia Mitchell, John

Abstract

The Kimberley region of northern Western Australia presently supports two diamond, one nickel, and one lead/zinc mine. Lennard Shelf Pty Ltd, a joint venture partnership between Teck Cominco and Xstrata Plc, own and operate the Lennard Shelf lead and zinc mining, concentrating and exporting operations in the West Kimberley. The operations, when purchased by Teck Cominco in November 2003, comprised two operating underground mines (Pillara and Kapok), two decommissioned underground mines (Cadjebut and Goongewa), one operating concentrating mill at Pillara, one decommissioned concentrating mill at Cadjebut, a shipping export facility at Derby and approximately 2100 square kilometres of mining and exploration tenements across the West Kimberley. Since November 2003 Lennard Shelf has decommissioned the third mine (Kapok), reclaimed the three decommissioned mine sites plus the Cadjebut concentrating mill and is now planning for closure and reclamation of the remaining Pillara mine, concentrating mill and Derby Export Facility in 2009. The reclamation of these mines and tailings storage facility has been the first of their kind and unique in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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Title	Mine reclamation and integrated land use in the Kimberley region of Western Australia
Creator	Mitchell, John
Contributor	British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium; University of British Columbia. Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Date Issued	2008
Description	The Kimberley region of northern Western Australia presently supports two diamond, one nickel, and one lead/zinc mine. Lennard Shelf Pty Ltd, a joint venture partnership between Teck Cominco and Xstrata Plc, own and operate the Lennard Shelf lead and zinc mining, concentrating and exporting operations in the West Kimberley. The operations, when purchased by Teck Cominco in November 2003, comprised two operating underground mines (Pillara and Kapok), two decommissioned underground mines (Cadjebut and Goongewa), one operating concentrating mill at Pillara, one decommissioned concentrating mill at Cadjebut, a shipping export facility at Derby and approximately 2100 square kilometres of mining and exploration tenements across the West Kimberley. Since November 2003 Lennard Shelf has decommissioned the third mine (Kapok), reclaimed the three decommissioned mine sites plus the Cadjebut concentrating mill and is now planning for closure and reclamation of the remaining Pillara mine, concentrating mill and Derby Export Facility in 2009. The reclamation of these mines and tailings storage facility has been the first of their kind and unique in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Extent	581751 bytes
Genre	Conference Paper
Type	Text
File Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
Date Available	2009-06-19
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0042550
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9461
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Other
Copyright Holder	British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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