NSW Statewide Minerals Resource Audit

Cameron Ricketts

Manager - Minerals & Land Use

“Who’s on First?”

Early land use planning around mines and quarries was based on existing use rights and often led to situations where no-one wins in the long run

• Sydney REP 9 (1986, 1995) • Hunter REP (1989) • Illawarra REP 1(1986)

Comprehensive, up to date information on the location of mineral and extractive resources is essential to sound land use planning. Providing such information has been an important role of Mineral Resources since the 1960s.

Why is Geological Survey involved in Land use?

Section 117 (2) Direction 1.3 Mining, Petroleum Production & Extractive Industries

• Purpose is to prevent unnecessary sterilisation of resources due to inappropriate zoning.

• Issued in 1994 - amended 2005 & 2007. • Requires councils to consult T&I if proposed LEPs would

prohibit or restrict development of mineral, petroleum and extractive resources of state and regional significance identified by Trade & Investment.

• If T&I objects to an LEP, council must provide justification for proceeding to Department of Planning & Infrastructure. • “Section 117” mapping program initiated by Mineral Resources Branch to provide councils with resource data.

Notification Status 1998

• NSW Planning Reforms 2004 • SEPP Mining Petroleum Production & Extractive Industries –

requiring councils to consider impacts “in the vicinity of” extractive operations and resources.

• Standard Local Environmental Plans (LEPs) for all Councils by 2011 • 300+ zones into 25 new zones • Resource Audit commenced 2007 to provide data on mineral &

extractive resources to councils to inform new LEPs. • Data will meet requirements of S117 Direction 1.3 & Mining SEPP. • Will update data for LGAs where S117 data previously provided as

well as provide data for those LGAs not previously covered. • To be completed by mid 2011….

153 Local Councils

Department of

Planning

Input to Regional Land Use Strategies

Local advice on Known resources

and potential resource areas

Assess LEP zoning Maps and provisions for resource issues

NSW Statewide Resource Audit

Port Stephens Example

Port Stephens Marine Park

F3 to Raymond Terrace Upgrade

Stockton Dunes Regional Park, NP, NT Claim

Proposed Port Stephens to Watagans Reserve

Council rezoning of

Diemars Quarry

Proposed Kaolin Mine

Most Identified resource areas were threatened in 2006-7

Martin’s Creek Quarry

Somersby Plateau Southern Potential Sand Resource

Somersby Plateau Northern Potential Sand Resource

1000m blasting 500m non blasting

Types of resource areas

Resource Audit Flowchart: 1. Acquire data and geodatabase 2. Plot data in GIS, allocate some areas 3. Field check where required 4. Assign identified/potential resource areas 5. Write report using template 6. Peer review of shapes and justification 7. Amend GIS and report as required 8. Present report and maps to council

Sample report

Excluding energy resources

123 councils later

Identified Resource AreasArea of Sites by Commodity Group

Construction Materials

Metallic Minerals

Industrial Minerals

Gemstones

Identified Resource AreasNumber of Sites by Commodity Group

Gemstones

Industrial Minerals

Metallic Minerals

Construction Materials

Commodity Group

No of sites Identified

Area (Ha) No. Potential Areas

Area (Ha) % of total No.

All 2,158 259,034 258 7,677,060 100% Operating 1,718 133,791 80% Construction Materials

1,651

33,459

75

83,808

77%

Metallic Minerals

211

62,842

107

2,350,869

10%

Industrial Minerals

246

111,978

67

5,040,583

11%

Gemstones 50 50,756 9 313,778 2%

Cemex Griffith Quarry - basalt Bogolong Hills pit (Narrandera) – sandstone and conglomerate

Kaniva pit (Narrandera) – siliceous metasediment

South Broken Hill Quarry (Broken Hill) – quartzo-feldspathic gneiss

Bob Brown, Jeff Brownlow, Jim Stroud and Nancy Vickery with admin and GIS support from Phil Kennedy. John Whitehouse, Gary Burton, Iain Paterson, Simon Francis, Cressida Gilmore, Cameron Ricketts and John Lowe.

Statewide Resource Audit 2013 Top LGAs by area covered by identified resources

LGA Total Area (Ha) Comments Wentworth 70,487.86 mineral sands Walgett 33,884.66 opals LR Balranald 15,132.07 mineral sands Unincorporated 13,421.63 mineral sands, alluvial gold and base metals Cobar 13,282.37 metallic deposits: Copper, lead and zinc, gold Broken Hill 8,210.03 Broken Hill deposit Inverell 7,461.35 Gemstones - sapphires

Cabonne 7,400.65 metallic deposits: Cadia, Copper Hill, Lewis Ponds, Cargo, plus limestone

Brewarrina 6,117.25 opals Wakool 5,576.13 mineral sands

What Next ? • Provided to Dept of Planning & Infrastructure

(DP&I) for input to SRLUP • DP&I to publish SRA on website – under EP&A

legislation • Coal & petroleum resource supplement • Presentations to Councils, planners • Continual updating with new resource areas and

changes in details • Develop online delivery – single point of truth • Adding to metadata – resource estimates,

consent boundaries, deposit models, mine plans, infrastructure, $ values

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Information required: Map showing surface projection of resource area Details of operation and products In-situ resource figures if not confidential Relevant contact

Chinook Quarry (Moree Plains) – coarse river gravel

Hygeer sand pit (Corowa) – fossil dune

Anna Bay – encroaching unstable coastal dune

Camden Haven – dredging behind sand ridge

Wilson pit (Jerilderie) – alluvial sand Lachlan Valley Sands – alluvial sand

Funk’s pit (Greater Hume) – weathered granite Kables Sands pit (Lithgow) – friable sandstone

Mt Wood pit (Unincorporated) –weathered Cretaceous sandstone

Mitchell’s pit (Carathool) – ripped and crushed siliceous sandstone

White Swamp pit (Moree Plains) – sandy silt (“loam”)

PGH quarry, Bathurst – Tertiary profile

Ginkgo HM Sand (Wentworth)

Magnetite

Hematite

Broula Iron Mine – Cowra LGA

Cadia Quarry

Ridgeway

Cadia Hill

Cadia East Cadia Hill

Cadia East

Little Cadia