1. Introduction
1.1 Background The Mount Morgan Mine (the Project) is owned and operated by Heritage Minerals Pty Ltd (herein referred to as the proponent). The Mount Morgan Mine is located near the town/location of Mount Morgan, 38 kilometres southwest of Rockhampton in Central Queensland. A site locality map is provided in Figure 1 . Mount Morgan Mine is bound to the north and west by undulating hills and largely bound to the east by the Dee River. The Mount Morgan Mine is the subject of 30 mining leases. Although Heritage Minerals Pty Ltd is the holder of the Mining Leases (MLs), the site is managed by the Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development (DNRMMRRD) through the Abandoned Mines Lands Program (AMLP). No other tenements exist over the site. The mine has a long history, starting in 1882 as an open-cut gold mine, converting to an underground copper and gold mine, and then in 1935 transitioning back to open-cut and continued until the mine closed in 1980. Then from 1982 to 1991 it ran as a tailings treatment operation recovering gold. And now the current owners intend to reinstate it as a gold and copper project. The project will directly impact on 67 individuals of Grevillea hockingsii , which is listed as vulnerable under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NC Act). The proponent intends to mitigate unavoidable impacts to the species by growing seedlings and planting these at a nearby recipient site under this impact management plan. When implemented this plan will prevent any Significant Residual Impact to a matter of state environmental significance being Grevillea hockingsii . The general area where the impacted G. hockingsii are located has been determined to be disturbed remnant and “in the wild” by the Author who is under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NC Act) as a Suitably Qualified Person (SQP) to make such determinations. Qualifications can be found in Appendix A . The taking of the G. hockingsii is exempt as per Information sheet, Nature Conservation (Plants) Regulation 2020: General exemptions for the take of protected plants. (1) A person has an exemption for section 89(1) of the Act to take a protected plant that is in the wild if the person takes the plant by clearing— (a) In the course of an activity under— (i) an authority, made, granted or given under another Act by the Governor in Council before 31 March 2014; or (ii)a mining lease or a petroleum lease granted before 31 March 2014 and (b)or in a way authorised under the authority, mining lease or petroleum lease.
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Mundic Gully TSF Impact Mitigation Management Plan - Grevillea hockingsii
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