Environmental Dedication

Environmental Dedication

Maintaining the highest health and safety measures within our operations and in the community is essential.

Internally, Phillips River will be ensuring strict health and safety guidelines are adhered to at all times, maintained to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees. Health and safety training and ongoing monitoring will be integral to the culture of safety at the Phillips River Project.

 As well as being central to the welfare of our employees, health and safety processes are also essential to protect the communities in which Phillips River operates. To reflect this focus, concentrates will be double bagged and containerized prior to transport. This is world’s best practice above and beyond regulatory requirements. Baseline dust and soil sampling will be undertaken along the transport route, and dust monitoring and soil sampling will be carried out throughout the life of the project. This, along with the significant management measures implemented in the transport method, will ensure that conditions remain as they currently are and are not impacted in any way by the company’s operations.

The Company has conducted extensive environmental investigations and baseline surveys over the last 7 years and has developed comprehensive environmental management plans in consultation with the Department of Environment and Conservation and the local councils.

The Trilogy site is on cleared pastoral land and the Kundip site has been disturbed by mining since early 1900s. Our aim is that, rehabilitation post-mining will return  both sites to native bush. .

The company has also undertaken significant actions to increase scientific knowledge of the area and improve environmental outcomes including:

• Contribution to the Millennium Seed Bank
• 5yr funding to Western Shield fox baiting project
• Funds to surveys outside project area
• Town-greening roundabout project
• Funds towards weed eradication along roadsides
• Purchase of land for conservation estate

Phillips River has the potential to be the first substantially wind powered mine in the world, setting a new standard as the carbon reduction policy comes into place.

The Project will use water taken from the site, mostly by dewatering of the mine operation. This is quite saline, low quality ground water and will remain on site. There will be no flow of water from the processing site.