To support the application for the Hillside copper mine, Rex Minerals (SA) Pty Ltd (the proponent) has submitted a mining lease proposal document.

Mining lease proposal document - main report

Mining lease proposal document - appendices

  • Section 5 Appendices - Description of the existing environment: Appendices 5.1 to 5.10 (ZIP 40.9MB)
    This zip file includes the following reports:
    • 5.1-A: Socio-economic baseline report
    • 5.3-A: Traffic and transport impact assessment
    • 5.5-A: Visual amenity plan
    • 5.6-A: Hillside mine pre-construction noise monitoring
    • 5.6-B: Hillside mine road diversion - road traffic noise assessment
    • 5.6-C: Dust and odour impact assessment report
    • 5.8-A: Waste rock sampling
    • 5.8-B: Waste rock characterisation report
    • 5.9-A: Surface hydrology report
    • 5.10-A: Hydrogeology report

  • Section 5 Appendices - Description of the existing environment: Appendices 5.11 to 5.13 (ZIP)
    This zip file includes the following reports:
    • 5.11-A: Marine baseline report
    • 5.11-B: Marine potential contaminants report
    • 5.12-A: Flora baseline report
    • 5.12-B: Flora supplementary report
    • 5.13-A: Fauna baseline report
    • 5.13-B: Fauna supplementary report
    • 5.13-C: Quarterly bird surveys report

  • Section 5 Appendices - Description of the existing environment: Appendices 5.14 (ZIP)
    This zip file includes the following reports:
    • 5.14-A: Land capability report
    • 5.14-B: Mine rehabilitation (Characterisation of overburden)

  • Section 5 Appendices - Description of the existing environment: Appendices 5.15 (ZIP)
    This zip file includes the following reports:
    • 5.15-A: Preliminary Aboriginal cultural heritage investigation
    • 5.15-B: Aboriginal cultural heritage investigation - stage 2
    • 5.15-C: Aboriginal cultural heritage investigation - supplementary stage 2
    • 5.15-D: Aboriginal heritage collaboration agreement

  • Section 6 Appendices - Description of the proposed operations (ZIP 49.MB)
    This zip file includes the following reports:
    • 6.2-A: Reserve statement Hillside project
    • 6.5-A: Groundwater investigations report
    • 6.5-B: Groundwater injection disposal modelling report
    • 6.6-A: Operational noise assessment
    • 6.7-A: Integrated waste management tailings storage facility design report

  • Section 7 Appendices - Stakeholder consultation (PDF 2.3MB)
  • This pdf file includes the following reports:
    • 7.4-A: Community Consultative Group Terms of Reference
    • 7.4-B: Hillside project government consultation minutes
    • 7.4-C: Community perceptions survey report

  • Section 8 Appendices - Environment and social impact assessment (PDF 30.4MB)
  • This pdf file includes the following reports:
    • 8.1-A: Socio-economic impact assessment
    • 8.3-A: Construction noise and vibration management plan
    • 8.3-B: Hillside mine blasting impact assessment
    • 8.3-C: Hillside mine mobile plant headlight line of sight assessment