EIS 1343
AB020271
Cadia Gold/Copper Project, New South Wales: planning focus
document, December 1994 SW DEPT PRDMR INDUSTRIES
AB0202 71
Newerest Mining Limited
DECEMBER 1994
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27 fl1" 23 H
Newcrest Mining Limited Cad ía Project Cl- Post Office South Orange NSW 2800 Excursion Guide 52
sampling, detailed ground magnetic traversing, trial [P and radiometric surveys and widely- spaced core drilling, The low-grade gold-copper mineralisation which has been intersected by this drilling is hosted in an envelope of discontinuous sheeted quartz veins which trend NW and dip moderately steeply to the SW. On the surface the mineralised envelope is expressed by a broad low-level (100 ppb) soil gold anomaly and a general coincident weak copper anomaly (500 ppm) The anomaly has general dimensions of 700x300 m and trends NW.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1.0 BACKGROUND 1-1 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1-1 1.2 PROJECT SETTiNG 1-3 1.3 REGIONAL GEOLOGY AND ORE RESERVES 1-4 1.4 HISTORY OF MINING IN THE CADIA DISTRICT 1-4 1.5 THE COMPANY 1-5 1.6 THE CADIA PROJECT 1-5 1.7 PROJECT STATUS 1-5
2.0 PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT 2-1
2.1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2-1 2.1.1 Mining 2-1 2.1.2 Processing 2-2 2.1.3 Tailings Dam 2-2 2.1.4 Water Supply 2-2 2.1.5 Transport of Product 2-3 2.1.6 Power 2-5 2.1.7 Hours of Operation 2-5
2.2 MINE PLAN 2-5
3.0 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS 3-1 3.1 LAND OWNERSHIP 3-1 3.2 REGIONAL TOPOGRAPHY 3-1 3.3 SOILS AND EROSION 3-2 3.4 HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY 3-2 3.5 FLORA 3-4 3.6 FAUNA 3-5 3.7 LAND USE 3-5 3.7.1 Regional Land Use 3-5 3.7.2 Local (Project Area) Land Use 3-6 3.8 AIR QUALITY 3-6 3.9 NOISE AND BLASTING 3-7 3.10 EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY 3-7 3.11 ABORIGINAL ARCHAEOLOGY 3-8 3.12 VISUAL AMENITY 3-9 3.13 REHABILITATION PROPOSALS 3-9 3.14 LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN 3-10 3.15 SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES 3-10
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