Resource

Uranium (U3O8)

Location

400 km north east of Adelaide, approximately 75 km north west of Broken Hill

Company and tenement information

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

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)

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