Gladstone Pacific Nickel Refinery

Project overview*

EIS status	Recommended project proceed subject to conditions and recommendations
Description	High-pressure acid leach plant with a projected production of 63,000 tonnes of nickel and 5,000 tonnes of cobalt per annum (Stage 1).
Proponent	Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd
Location/s	8 km west of Gladstone Map
Local government/s	Gladstone Regional Council
Key features	greenfield high-pressure acid leach plant and refinery slurry and water pipelines, approximately 175km long tailing storage facility sulphur and ore handling facilities

 

Key environmental impact statement (EIS) documents

• Coordinator-General’s report on EIS (PDF, 1.37 MB), January 2009
• Appendices (PDF, 527 KB)
• Schedules of conditions (PDF, 638 KB)
• Environmental Assessment of Treated Water Discharge to Port Curtis (technical supplement to Coordinator-General's report on EIS), July 2008
• Part 1 (PDF, 2.38 MB)
• Part 2 (PDF, 1.19 MB)
• Part 3 (PDF, 1.63 MB)
• Part 4 (PDF, 3.31 MB)
• Part 5 - Manganese Oxidation Study (PDF, 388.6 kB), March 2007
• Supplementary EIS, February 2008
• Environmental impact statement, April 2007
• EIS - Executive summary (PDF, 613 KB)
• Complete EIS. Also available at State Library of Queensland (record numbers: 775953 and 775763)
• Terms of reference for EIS (PDF, 393 kB), March 2006
• Initial advice statement (PDF, 1.79 MB), October 2005

EIS process

Read more about the EIS process.

Australian Government approval

Federal environment minister's approval of 'controlled action', subject to conditions.

Further information

For more information, visit the Gladstone Nickel Project web page.

* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.