Resource | Uranium (U3O8) |
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Company | Heathgate Resources Pty Ltd |
Status | Care and maintenance - plants are processing product from the Four Mile Uranium Mine |
Mining operation | Beverley Mine and Beverley North Mine are in situ recovery (ISR) mines. ISR is the chemical process of extracting minerals from host rock underground using specially designed wellfields. Where the ore exists in an underground aquifer, as is the case at Beverley and Beverley North, oxygen and a weak acid mining solution is pumped through the ore body to mobilise the uranium minerals. The mobilised uranium is then pumped to the surface, where it is taken out of solution through the ion exchange (IX) process, dried and packaged for export. The operation at Beverley and Beverley North Mines involve wellfields to extract uranium from the deposit, and the processing plants to recover the extracted uranium and produce a dried and packaged solid product for export. Beverley North Mine comprises wellfield satellite plants to capture uranium on resin which is trucked to the Beverley processing plant for final processing and packaging. Production at Beverley commenced in 1999 and Beverley North in 2010.
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Location | ![]() |
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The deposit | Low to medium grade uranium ore deposits at Beverley and Beverley North exist in permeable sediments contained in the saline and naturally radioactive aquifers between 100 m to 250 m below the ground surface, in either the Namba or Eyre Formations. The aquifer sediments are confined above by clays and confined below by impermeable mudstones. The Beverley North Mine is comprised of a number of deposits - Pepegoona, Pepegoona West and Pannikan deposits. |
Resource estimates and production estimates | Company released resource estimates and production statistics for South Australia's major operating and approved mines are summarised in South Australia's major operating/approved mines: resources estimates and production statistics (PDF) |
Approval process |
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Latest reports | Program for environment protection and rehabilitation (PEPR)
Mining compliance reports |
Uranium incident reports | South Australia’s uranium mines and processing facilities are required to report incidents involving the unplanned release of radioactive process materials, radioactive liquids or radioactive wastes associated with the physical and chemical processing of uranium ores, following standard criteria and procedures |
More information | For more information about this mining operation contact DEM.MiningRegRehab@sa.gov.au |
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