Resource
Uranium (U3O8)
Location
400 km north east of Adelaide, approximately 75 km north west of Broken Hill
Company and tenement information
- Boss Energy
- Honeymoon Project consists of ML 6109, MPL 15, and MPL 92
- Tenement location and information can be found via the South Australian Resources Information Gateway (SARIG)
Mining operation and status
- Operating
- Ore at Honeymoon exists in an underground aquifer and is extracted by in situ recovery (ISR), the chemical process of extracting minerals from the host rock underground through the utilisation of specially designed wellfields
- Oxygen and a weak acid mining solution is pumped through the ore body to dissolve the uranium minerals
- The dissolved uranium is pumped to the surface, processed via ion exchange (IR), dried and packaged for export
- More about in situ recovery mining
The deposit
- Five discrete mineralised sand packages, located near the confluence of a major tributary entering the Yarramba Paleochannel
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, updated regularly).
- More information available on Boss Energy's Honeymoon Project web page
Approval process
The Honeymoon Operations PEPR provides a background to the project, details of constructed project infrastructure, description of the proposed operational activities, an assessment of the environmental social and economic risks resulting from the operations of the project, management, mitigation and control measures to ameliorate residual risk, and details of the project closure.
Current documents
Program for environment protection and rehabilitation (PEPR)
- Program for environment protection and rehabilitation - mining lease 6109, miscellaneous purposes licences 15 and 92, dated 12 October 2023
Mining compliance report
More Honeymoon uranium reports can be found via the South Australian Resource Information Gateway
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