Data as at 14 September 2026 · from the Queensland EP Act public register
EPVL00241013 · GOLDEN ANT MINING PTY LTD
Minerals environmental authority EPVL00241013 (GOLDEN ANT MINING PTY LTD), Granted. 10 conditions indexed. No PRC plan.
- Status
- Granted
- Holders
- GOLDEN ANT MINING PTY LTD
- Tenures
- ML4522; ML4523; ML4524; ML4525; ML4534; ML4536; ML4540; ML6952
- PRC plan
- None
- How it was read
- Numbered conditions (OCR)
- Register
- Register record · Instrument PDF
Conditions
10 numbered conditions read from the current instrument. Page numbers link into the register PDF.
- A2
The environmental authority holder is to give the administering authority a financial assurance in the amount and form and at a time required by the administering authority.
- A3
The environmental authority holder must comply with each of the Standard Environmental Conditions contained in the Code of Environmental Compliance for Mining Lease Projects dated January 2007.
- A4
The total area significantly disturbed by mining activities will not exceed 100 ha. {A5) Record, compile and keep for a minimum of five years all monitoring results required by this environmental authority and make available for inspection all or any of these records upon request by the administering authority.
- A6
| Where monitoring is a requirement of this environmental authority, ensure that a competent person(s) conducts all monitoring,
- A7
The method of water sampling required by this environmental authority must comply with that set out in the latest edition of the Environmental Protection Agency's Water Quality Sampling Manual.
- A8
All exploration activities carried out on the mining leases must comply with each of the Standard Environmental Conditions contained in the most recent version of the Code of Environmental Compliance for Exploration and Mineral Development Projects. Where there is any conflict between conditions of the Code and the conditions of this Environmental Authority, the conditions of this Environmental Authority take precedence. END OF CONDITIONS FOR SCHEDULE A Schedule B - Water Release to waters
- C3
The mean percentage ground cover on disturbed land listed in Schedule C — Table 2 must achieve at least 80% of the mean percentage ground cover at the specified analogue site.
- C4
Percentage ground cover must be measured in the dry season, before the first heavy rainfall of the year,
- C5
Conditions C3 and C4 only apply to disturbed land that has not already achieved the plant density target specified in commitment 42 of the 1994 Environmental Management Overview Strategy. Residual void outcome
- C6
Residual voids must not cause any serious environmental harm to land, surface waters or any recognised groundwater aquifer, other than the environmental harm constituted by the existence of the residual void itself, and subject to any other condition within this environmental authority. END OF CONDITIONS FOR SCHEDULE C Schedule D - Definitions “acceptance criteria” means the measures by which the actions implemented to rehabilitate the land are deemed to be complete (same as completion criteria). “analogue site” descriptions are as follows; A = Adjacent to waste dump 17; 18° 49.246’, 145° 33.903’ B = Adjacent to Mt Angus waste dump; 18° 49.495", 145° 34.045’ C = Adjacent to Camel Creek waste dump no.1; 18° 49.869", 145° 33.511’ D = Adjacent to Golden Cup waste dump no.1; 18° 54.365’, 145° 39.734’ E = Adjacent to Prill Hill waste dump; 18° 49.438’, 145° 34.232’ “authority” means environmental authority (mining activities) under the Environmental Protection Act 1994. “commercial place” means a place used as an office or for business or commercial purposes, other than a place within the boundaries of the operational land. “competent person” means a person with the demonstrated skill and knowledge required to carry out the task to a standard necessary for the reliance upon collected data or protection of the environment. “environmental authority holder” means the holder of this environmental authority. “percentage ground cover” means an estimate, within a specified quadrat, of the percentage of ground covered by grass, herbage, forbs and smail shrubs. “land” in the “land schedule” of this document means land excluding waters and the atmosphere. “Jand capability” as defined in the DME 1995 Technical Guidelines for the Environmental Management of Exploration and Mining in Queensland. “land suitability” as defined in the DME 1995 Technical Guidelines for the Environmental Management of Exploration and Mining in Queensland. “land use” term to describe the selected post mining use of the land, which is planned to occur after the cessation of mining operations. “leachate” means a liquid that has passed through or emerged from, or is likely to have passed through or emerged from, a material stored, processed or disposed of at the operational land which contains soluble, suspended or miscible contaminants likely to have been derived from the said material. “noxious” means harmful or injurious to health or physical well being, other than trivial harm. Queensland Government Environmental Protection Agency Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service Environmental Authority No. MIM400067202 “non-standard” means a mining operation that if in the opinion of the administering authority does not have a low risk of serious environmental harm and the activities can not comply with the criteria for standard mining activities prescribed in schedule 1A of the Environmental Protection Regulation 1998. The standard mining activity trigger criteria are as follows; - the mining activities do not or will not cause more than 10 ha of land to be significantly disturbed at any one time; - the mining activities do not or will not cause more than 5 ha of land to be significantly disturbed at any one time; (a) in a riverine area; (b) because of mine workings; - the mining activities are not or will not be carried out in, or within 2 km of a category A Environmentally Sensitive Area; - the mining activities are not or will not be carried out in, or within 1 km of a category B environmentally sensitive area; - the mining activities do not include a level 1 environmentally relevant activity - no more than 20 persons are carrying out or will, at any one time, carry out the mining activities; “offensive” means causing reasonable offence or displeasure; is disagreeable to the sense; disgusting, nauseous or repulsive, other than trivial harm. “protected area” means - a protected area under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; or - amarine park under the Marine Parks Act 1992; or - aWorld Heritage Area. “progressive rehabilitation” means rehabilitation (defined below) undertaken progressively or a staged approach to rehabilitation as mining operations are ongoing. “rehabilitation” the process of reshaping and revegetating land to restore it to a stable landform and in accordance with the acceptance criteria set out in this environmental authority and, where relevant, includes remediation of contaminated land. “representative” means a sample set which covers the variance in monitoring or other data either due to natural changes or operational phases of the mining activities. “residual void” means an open pit resulting from the removal of ore and/or waste rock which will remain following the cessation of all mining activities and completion of rehabilitation processes. “self sustaining” means an area of land which has been rehabilitated and has maintained the required acceptance criteria without human intervention for a period nominated by the administering authority. “significant disturbance” — includes land (a) if it is contaminated land; or (b) it has been disturbed and human intervention is needed to rehabilitate it. i. to astate required under the relevant environmental authority; or ii. if the environmental authority does not require the land to be rehabilitated to a particular state — to its state immediately before the disturbance. Some examples of disturbed land include: - areas where soil has been compacted, removed, covered, exposed or stockpiled; - areas where vegetation has been removed or destroyed to an extent where the land has been made susceptible to erosion; (vegetation & topsoil) - areas where land use suitability or capability has been diminished; - areas within a watercourse, waterway, wetland or lake where mining activities occur: - areas submerged by tailings or hazardous contaminant storage and dam walls in all cases; - areas under temporary infrastructure.