Data as at 14 September 2026 · from the Queensland EP Act public register
EPVX03356815 · PACIFIC SILICA PTY LTD
Minerals environmental authority EPVX03356815 (PACIFIC SILICA PTY LTD), Granted. 29 conditions indexed. No PRC plan.
- Status
- Granted
- Holders
- PACIFIC SILICA PTY LTD
- PRC plan
- None
- How it was read
- Numbered conditions (OCR)
- Register
- Register record · Instrument PDF
Conditions
29 numbered conditions read from the current instrument. Page numbers link into the register PDF.
- A1
Prevent and/or minimise likelihood of environmental harm. In carrying out an ERA to which this approval relates, all reasonable and practicable measures must be taken to prevent and / or to minimise the likelihood of environmental harm being caused.
- A2
The only activity to be carried out on the approved premises is extraction of sand, gravel and mineral sands. Operating Plan
- A3
From commencement of the activity, an Operating Plan must be implemented. The Operating Plan must identify all sources of environmental harm, including but not limited to the actual and potential release of all contaminants, the potential impact of these sources and what actions will be taken to prevent the likelihood of environmental harm being caused. The Operating Plan must also provide for the review and ‘continual improvement’ in the overall environmental performance of all activities that are carried out. The operating plan must address the following matters: * Environmental commitments - a commitment by senior management to achieve environmental goals. « Identification of environmental issues and potential impacts. * Control measures for routine operations to minimise likelihood of environmental harm. * Contingency plans and emergency procedures for non-routine situations. * Organisational structure and responsibility. « Effective communication. * Monitoring of contaminant releases, including releases to waters via a monitoring regime that at least addresses monitoring requirements in this environmental authority. * Conducting environmental impact assessments. * — Staff training. =» Record keeping. «Periodic review of environmental performance and continual improvement. In conjunction with the above matters, the operating plan must also include: * An acid sulphate soil visual inspection program. » Asite rehabilitation program. * Erosion protection measures and sediment controls. * Maintenance and clean-up procedures. * Pond integrity management. « Acid soil drainage and leachate management. *® Storage and handling of flammable and combustible liquids. » Flood management measures. » Measures to address compliance with the latest edition of the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency's /nstructions for the treatment and management of acid sulphate soils, 2001 produced by the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency in consultation with the Department of Natural Resources and Mines and the Department of Primary Industries. Permit Environmental authority: EPML00951013 Monitoring Report
- A4
From commencement of the activity, an annual Monitoring Report must be available upon inspection detailing:- - all surface water and groundwater monitoring and graphical compilation; - progress on rehabilitation of the sites; - anup to date plan of the premises showing the accurate location of: e all ponds, pits, lakes and depressions that may hold water permanently, or from time to time; and e numbered representative monitoring locations that are being used to fulfil the monitoring location categories described in Agency Interest C Table 1. Records (Ad) Record, compile and keep all monitoring results required by this document and present this information to the administering authority when requested, in a specified format. NOTE: Conditions A6 and A7 relate to mining leases only. | Financial Assurance
- A6
Provide a financial assurance in the amount and form required by the administering authority prior to the commencement of activities proposed under this environmental authority. NOTE: The calculation of financial assurance for Condition (A6) must be in accordance with Guideline 17 and may include a performance discount. The amount is defined as the maximum total rehabilitation cost for complete rehabilitation of all disturbed areas, which may vary on an annual basis due to progressive rehabilitation. The amount required for the financial assurance must be the highest Total Rehabilitation Cost calculated for any year of the Plan of Operations and calculated using the formula: (Financial Assurance = Highest Total Annual Rehabilitation Cost x Percentage Required) | (A7) The financial assurance is to remain in force until the administering authority is satisfied that no claim on the assurance is likely. NOTE: Where progressive rehabilitation is completed and acceptable to the administering authority, progressive reductions to the amount of financial assurance will be applicable where rehabilitation has been completed in accordance with the acceptance criteria defined within this environmental authority et ————————— Maintenance of Measures, Plant and Equipment
- A8
The environmental authority holder must ensure: (i) that all measures, plant and equipment necessary to ensure compliance with the conditions of this environmental authority are installed; and (ii) | that such measures, plant and equipment are maintained in a proper condition; and (iii) | that such measures, plant and equipment are operated in a proper manner. Permit Environmental authority: EPML00951013 Acid sulphate soils (ASS) (AQ) Acid sulfate soils must be managed such that contaminants are not be directly or indirectly released, as aresult of the activity, to any waters or the bed and banks of any waters outside the mining leases. Monitoring
- A10
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.
- A11
Where monitoring is a requirement of this environmental authority, ensure that a competent person(s) conducts all monitoring. Buffer Zones for Sand Extraction Projects
- A12
A buffer from the environmentally relevant activities at the site must be provided to each external boundary of the project site. The buffer must: (i) be of sufficient width to ensure the continued stability of adjacent lands and the structural integrity of the ponds on-site; (ii) be of sufficient width to ensure the Melaleuca ecosystems to the north are protected from impact from the activity; (iii) be vegetated with local endemic riparian species appropriate to the Beachmere area; (iv) vegetation within the buffer must be progressively rehabilitated by supplementary plantings to establish a vegetated corridor, provide habitat for wildlife, stabilise pond walls and minimise erosion; and (v) aweed control program must be implemented to progressively remove existing weeds from the buffer and to minimise future weed invasions. END OF CONDITIONS FOR AGENCY INTEREST A Agency Interest: Air
- B1
The release of noxious or offensive odours or any other noxious or offensive airborne contaminants resulting from the activity must not cause a nuisance at any nuisance sensitive or commercial place. Dust Nuisance
- B2
The release of dust and/or particulate matter resulting from the ERA must not cause an environmental nuisance at any nuisance sensitive or commercial place.
- B3
When requested by the administering authority, dust and particulate monitoring must be undertaken to investigate any complaint of environmental nuisance caused by dust and/or particulate matter, and the results notified within 14 days to the administering authority following completion of monitoring. Monitoring must be carried out at a place(s) relevant to the potentially affected dust sensitive place and at upwind control sites and must include: a) for a complaint alleging dust nuisance, dust deposition; and b) for a complaint alleging adverse health effects caused by dust, the concentration per cubic metre of particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of less than 10 micrometre (um) (PM10) suspended in the atmosphere over a 24hr averaging time. Permit Environmental authority: EPML00951013
- B4
Dust and particulate matter must not exceed the following levels when measured at any nuisance sensitive or commercial place: a) Dust deposition of 120 milligrams per square metre per day, when monitored in accordance with Australian Standard AS 3580.10.1 of 2003 (or more recent editions); OR b) A concentration of particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of less than 10 micrometre (um) (PM10) suspended in the atmosphere of 150 micrograms per cubic metre over a 24 hour averaging time, at a nuisance sensitive or commercial place downwind of the site, when monitored in accordance with: - Australian Standard AS 3580.9.6 of 2003 (or more recent editions) 'Ambient air Particulate matter - Determination of suspended particulate PM10 high-volume sampler with size-selective inlet -Gravimetric method’; or any alternative method of monitoring PM10 which may be permitted by the ‘Air Quality Sampling Manual’ as published from time to time by the administering authority. END OF CONDITIONS FOR AGENCY INTEREST B Agency Interest: Water Release to waters
- C1
Contaminants must not be directly or indirectly released from any source on the licensed place to any waters at any location other than the contaminants and sources at the locations listed below: (i) NO RELEASES APPROVED FROM THE SITE.
- C2
All water from the screening and processing of materials must be returned to the on-site extraction ponds or sediment ponds. Monitoring
- C3
Monitoring must be undertaken and records kept for the groundwater and surface water quality characteristics and not less frequently than specified in Agency Interest C Table 1. All determinations of the quality of contaminants released must be: a) made in accordance with methods prescribed in the latest edition of the Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Sampling Manual; and b) carried out on samples that are representative of the waters. f | ‘= Permit Environmental authority: EPML00951013 Agency Interest C - Table 1 (Water Quality Monitoring) Monitoring point Surface water quality characteristics Minimum monitoring frequency Wet Plant Pond — fines pH Daily disposal pH, Electrical conductivity, Salinity, Water colour (Visual observaton), | Weekly or fortnightly as appropriate Pond surface water level (as m AHD) i One location in each pond where mining is occurring or fines are stored One location in each pond TAG ASC, or : Hardness (as CaCOsz) where mining is occurring or fines are stored Total Iron and Ferrous Iron and Ferric One location in each pond Iron, where mining is occurring or Total Aluminium and Dissolved Once every three (3) months fines are stored Aluminium Monthly Monitoring point Groundwater quality characteristics Appropriate monitoring locations referred to in Pacific |RM _ . . Silica’s annual monitoring Electrical Conductivity, Weekly or fortnightly as appropriate Water level (as m AHD) Minimum monitoring frequency Appropriate monitoring locations referred to in Pacific Silica’s annual monitoring program Titratable Acidity, Hardness (as CaCOsz) Monthly | Total iron and ferrous and ferric iron, Total and dissolved aluminium, Sulfate ion, Once every three (3) months Chloride ion Appropriate monitoring locations referred to in Pacific Silica’s annual monitoring program * Pond includes any pits, lakes and depressions holding greater than or equal to 50 OOOL (50m*).
- C4
Records of water quality monitoring must include details of: (i) the locations where extraction is occurring; (ii) the locations where fines are being returned; (iii) the locations where fines are being stored; (iv) water movements (pumping, drainage etc); and (v) rainfall. ek Permit Environmental authority: ERPML00951013 Drainage for Mineral Sand Extraction Projects
- C5
This environmental authority does not authorise the diversion of natural watercourses.
- C6
For the Ningi West Mineral Sand Extraction Project only, a Surface Water Management Plan and a Surface Water Drainage Map must be developed and implemented. The plan and map must be included in the initial and any amended or replacement Plan of Operations for the tenement.
- C7
For the Ningi West Mineral Sand Extraction Project only, prior to the commencement of each project stage, the environmental authority holder must review the Surface Water Management Plan and the Surface Water Drainage Map and make any revisions necessary to update the plan and map.
- C8
Prior to conducting any surface drainage works or alterations (excluding maintenance activities), the local government authority for the project site must be consulted.
- C9
For the Ningi West Mineral Sand Extraction Project only, natural flows across the northern boundary of the mining lease must not be restricted to any greater extent than restrictions that predate mining activities. (This refers to stormwater that is kept separate from, or diverted around, disturbed and potentially contaminated areas on the tenement).
- C10
No new water discharge locations shall be developed for the site and water discharge rates must not exceed existing flow rates. (This refers to stormwater that is kept separate from, or diverted around, disturbed and potentially contaminated areas on the tenement). Pond conditions
- C11
All ponds used for the storage or treatment of contaminants or wastes must be installed and maintained to prevent any discharge through the bed or banks of the pond from causing environmental harm or environmental nuisance in any waters (including groundwaters) outside the mining leases.
- C12
The holder of the environmental authority must record daily rainfall levels using a rain gauge on site. Interpretation of Surface and Groundwater Monitoring
- C13
All monitoring data that is collected in accordance with conditions and tables of this Agency Interest must be reviewed and interpreted regularly. All interpretations of the monitoring data must be: « performed by a person or body possessing appropriate experience and qualifications to perform the required interpretation; and » documented along with conclusions and recommendations. END OF CONDITIONS FOR AGENCY INTEREST C Agency Interest: Noise and vibration
- F1
The environmentally relevant activity must be carried out by such practicable means necessary to prevent the release or likelihood of release of contaminants to land which may cause such land to become contaminated land. Land rehabilitation
- F2
The authorised place must be rehabilitated (including all disturbed areas such as slopes, borrow pits, stockpile and screening areas) in a manner such that: (i) suitable local endemic native species of vegetation are planted and established; (ii) potential for erosion of the site is minimised; (iii) the quality of stormwater, water and seepage released from the site is such that releases of contaminants such as suspended solids, turbidity, total dissolved salts, pH, total iron, total aluminium, and total manganese are not likely to cause environmental harm; (iv) the likelihood of environmental nuisance being caused by release of dust is minimised; (v) the water quality of any residual water bodies meets criteria for subsequent uses and does not have potential to cause environmental harm; (vi) the final landform is stable and not subject to slumping; and (vii) any actual and potential acid sulfate soils in or on the site are either not disturbed; or, submerged, or treated so as to not be likely to cause environmental harm.
- F3
Rehabilitation of disturbed areas must take place progressively as works are staged and new areas of extraction are commenced. END OF CONDITIONS FOR AGENCY INTEREST F Agency Interest: Community G1) All complaints received must be recorded including details of complainant, reasons for the complaint, investigations undertaken, conclusions formed and actions taken. This information must be made available for inspection by the administering authority on request. END OF CONDITIONS FOR AGENCY INTEREST G Agency Interest: Cultural Heritage