Aspect
Environmental Value
Description of Risk
Magnitude of Impact
Human health and wellbeing of residents within the township of Mount Morgan
Processed tailings will be deposited in slurry form which reduces potential for dust generation. The location of the TSF is approximately 2km from the nearest residential receptors and tailings discharge is unlikely to impact these receptors Proposed activity is consistent with existing land uses and considered to have a negligible impact on the amenity of the township. Inability to secure this approval will jeopardise Heritage Minerals mine plan and affect members of the local community as some have jobs at the site
• It is anticipated that there will be no impact on air quality environmental values as a result of the proposed activity
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Air Quality
Aesthetics of the environment
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Nearby Mount Morgan township
• It is anticipated that there will be no impact on social and community environmental values as a result of the proposed activity
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Social and Community
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Aboriginal Cultural Heritage sites within Mount Morgan Mine MLs
No sites with cultural heritage value fall within the Upper Mundic Gully TSF footprint
• It is anticipated that there will be no impact on Cultural Heritage environmental values as a result of the proposed activity • Considering the historical disturbance and degraded nature of the project area, including existing ARD contamination in soil, the modified hydrology, and the presence of dense patches of weeds, there is a risk that the population of Cycas megacarpa and Grevillea hockingsii . within the project area will decline without intervention. • The project proposes the implementation of a Management Plans which will detail methods to translocate individuals impacted by the project out of the degraded habitat and into an existing population off-site, as well as propagate and plant additional individuals. The management plans will have a net-positive goal, to not only mitigate the
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Cultural Heritage
Unavoidable impact to MSES within footprint of proposed TSF
Clearing of potential, but degraded, habitat for several MSES Clearing of known populations of Cycas megacarpa and, Grevillea hockingsii .
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Nature Conservation
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Wulguru Technical Services Pty Ltd – Supporting Information Report
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