Fountain Head Gold Project

Overview

PNX Metals Limited (PNX) proposes to recommence mining of the Fountain Head open pit, which is situated on granted mineral leases north of the Mt Wells road between the towns of Pine Creek and Adelaide River, approximately 170km south of Darwin. Ore will be mined using traditional drilling and blasting techniques and gold extracted using a carbon-in pulp process. The life of mine is 3 years.

Stage 1: Notice of intent

On 16 March 2020 the NT EPA decided the Fountain Head Gold Project requires assessment under the Environmental Assessment Act 1982 at the level of Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

Fountain Head Gold Project	Type
Notice of intent	PDF 9.1 MB
NT EPA statement of reasons	PDF 271.1 KB
Terms of reference for an EIS	PDF 221.1 KB

Stage 2: Assessment

Draft environmental impact statement

NT EPA notices about the draft EIS

Public consultation on the draft EIS

Statutory notice (9 June 2021)

The NT EPA published a statutory notice on 9 June 2021 inviting public comment on the draft EIS for the Fountain Head Gold Project, proposed by PNX Limited. Interested persons were invited to make a submission by Friday 6 August 2021.

The NT EPA published the notice in accordance with clause 9 of the Environmental Assessment Administrative Procedures 1984.

Submissions received on draft EIS	Type
Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority	PDF 411.2 KB
Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security	PDF 2.6 MB
Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade - Tourism	PDF 871.9 KB
Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade - Resources	PDF 2.3 MB
Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities - Heritage Branch	PDF 69.6 KB
NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services	PDF 114.7 KB
Public submission	PDF 45.5 KB

Documents

Draft EIS		Type
	Declaration form	PDF 176.5 KB
	Executive summary	PDF 2.9 MB
	Table of contents	PDF 415.0 KB
	Environmental impact statement main report	PDF 23.5 MB
Appendices
1	Air quality and greenhouse gas assessment	PDF 1.9 MB
2	Environmental noise assessment	PDF 1.2 MB
3	Site water and solute balance modelling	PDF 4.0 MB
4	Flood assessment and surface water management	PDF 9.9 MB
5	Soil infiltration and solute fate assessment	PDF 1.1 MB
6	Geochemical characterisation of waste rock and ore	PDF 4.8 MB
7	Geochemical characterisation of Fountain Head CIL tailings	PDF 475.1 KB
8	Hayes Creek Project flora and fauna report	PDF 6.0 MB
9	Aquatic baseline characterisation report - Fountain Head and Hayes Creek zinc, gold and silver projects	PDF 14.6 MB
10	Archaeological assessment of PNX Metals Fountain Head Gold Project	PDF 14.6 MB
11	Socio-economic impact assessment report	PDF 8.2 MB
12	Traffic impact assessment	PDF 1.4 MB
13	Traffic management plan	PDF 1.7 MB
14	EIS contributors	PDF 128.6 KB
15	EIS cross-reference	PDF 237.1 KB
16	Water management plan	PDF 17.4 MB
18	Mine closure plan	PDF 3.2 MB
19	Water quality results tables	PDF 339.8 KB
20	Macroinvertebrate SIGNAL 2 score calculations	PDF 113.8 KB
21	Stakeholder engagement plan	PDF 1.2 MB
22	Commitments register	PDF 223.7 KB
23	Risk register	PDF 96.8 KB
24	Cultural heritage management plan	PDF 12.8 MB
25	Estimates of PAF waste rock volumes at Fountain Head	PDF 1.8 MB
26	Tailings storage facility scoping study	PDF 6.7 MB
27	Fountain Head evaporator emissions study	PDF 1.9 MB

Supplement to the Draft EIS		Type
	Supplement to the draft EIS main report	PDF 11.1 MB
Appendices
1	Submissions received	PDF 6.3 MB
2	NT EPA direction	PDF 116.9 KB
3	Emission concentration review	PDF 228.4 KB
4	Groundwater monitoring plan	PDF 7.2 MB
5	Water management plan	PDF 67.0 MB
6	Waste rock management plan	PDF 699.2 KB
7	Commitments register	PDF 212.6 KB
8	Pit Lake water quality assessment	PDF 5.4 MB
9	Blasting impact report	PDF 2.2 MB
10	Mine closure plan	PDF 2.8 MB

Other information for the draft EIS		Type
	Response to request for additional information for the draft EIS	PDF 5.4 MB
Appendices
1	Appendix 1 - NTPA direction	PDF 999.2 KB
2	Appendix 2 - agency comments	PDF 4.9 MB
3	Appendix 3 - Fountain Head Gold Project water management plan	PDF 10.1 MB
4	Appendix 4 - Fountain Head Gold Project mitigation/commitments register	PDF 208.2 KB
5	Appendix 5 - Fountain Head Gold Project Pit Lake water quality	PDF 13.8 MB
6	Appendix 6 - Fountain Head Gold Project groundwater model - update for supplementary EIS response 2022	PDF 16.0 MB
7	Appendix 7 - peer review statement - Fountain Head groundwater model	PDF 242.4 KB
8	Appendix 8 - Fountain Head Gold Project model synthesis	PDF 148.9 KB
9	Appendix 9 - Fountain Head Gold Project technical memo - Aquatic Ecology Services drone surveys	PDF 2.8 MB
Maps and figures
1	Figure 2.1 - location of pods within the pit	PDF 1.3 MB
2	Figure 2.2 - identified GDEs	PDF 1.2 MB
3	Figure 2.3 - GDE assessment survey area	PDF 1.8 MB
4	Figure 2.4 - project timeline	PDF 191.2 KB
5	Figure 3.4 - predicted solute flowpath 0-50 years post mining commencement	PDF 7.6 MB
6	Figure 3.5 - predicted solute flowpath 0-50 years post mining commencement	PDF 6.6 MB
7	Figure 3.8	PNG 1.2 MB
8	Figure 3.9	PNG 758.5 KB
9	Figure 3.10	PNG 720.4 KB
10	Figure 3.11 - predicted mean drawdown at end of mining	PDF 584.3 KB
11	Figure 3.12 - predicted mean drawdown at end of mining	PDF 370.9 KB
12	Figure 3.13 - surface water and groundwater monitoring locations	PDF 893.2 KB

Last updated:

03 August 2022

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