Gladstone Nickel

Project overview*

EIS status	Approved with conditions
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 175 km long tailing storage facility sulphur and ore handling facilities

* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.

Coordinator-General's report on EIS ( 1.41 MB), January 2009
- Appendices ( 534 KB)
- Schedules of conditions ( 644 KB)
Environmental Assessment of Treated Water Discharge to Port Curtis (technical supplement to Coordinator-General's report on EIS), July 2008
- Part 1 ( 2.45 MB)
- Part 2 ( 1.23 MB)
- Part 3 ( 1.68 MB)
- Part 4 ( 3.40 MB)
- Part 5 - Manganese Oxidation Study ( 394 KB), March 2007
Supplementary EIS, February 2008
Environmental impact statement, April 2007
- EIS - Executive summary ( 618 KB)
- Complete EIS. Also available at State Library of Queensland (record numbers: 775953 and 775763)
Terms of reference for EIS ( 399 KB), March 2006
Initial advice statement ( 1.84 MB), October 2005

Commonwealth Minister for the Environment's approval of controlled action, subject to conditions.

Last updated: 09 Nov 2021