Western Australia

We have a large WA resource which is currently unable to be mined.

Not in to politics generally except when it is anti science and illogical as WA people and business depend on Nuclear sciences

"NT: First of all, I’d like to say we’re starting with unblocking the roadblock on uranium mining, we’re going to allow uranium mining comments again in West Australia, vital for our future energy requirements and vital for the world’s decarbonisation process as well. We have a moral obligation to mine uranium in West Australian and we’ll be supporting the uranium industry. The second thing we’re going to do is we’re going to do a root-and-branch review of the Environmental Protection Act. There were a number of reforms that were put through after the Vogel-McFerran Review that was undertaken by the Labour government, of which did come through, and we supported, but it didn’t go far enough and the sorts of things we will do, we will make sure, for example, are not only parallel approvals, but we’ll have deemed approvals which will allow for decisions to be made when time’s up in terms of the number of days. We’re also going to restrict those appeal rights under part four of the Environmental Protection Act to make sure only persons with standing can make an appeal, and we’re gonna go hard on those groups, those internationally funded lobby groups that come in here and initiate campaigns against our mining industry. If we look at the EDO, the Environmental Defender’s Office, we’re not gonna throw taxpayers’ money at a group that has been found by a court of Australia to be working contrary to the law in relation to the Santos project. We’re gonna go very hard on that and also look at the big money that’s coming in and supporting our groups. We want genuine appeals. There’s a whole range of other things where we looking at, for example, and you’re listeners will probably know the Social Surrounds policy. The Environmental Protection Act should be all about the environment, it shouldn’t be about planning, it shouldn’t be about Aboriginal heritage; those things are under separate legislation. We will institute what they call a statement of compliance so that if people get their approvals through the other piece of legislation, they don’t have to go back over it again through the EPA. The EPA should be making decisions purely based on Environmental Protection. Our focus will be on Environmental Protection. There are a whole lot of other things we’ll be doing that haven’t already been mooted and those have been announced by Libby Mettam, our leader, back in June, and we’re really proud to stand by a record on reducing red tape in this sector."

Expect major mining change should the Liberals win this WA election – starting with 'a whole lot less red tape' | 2025-02-26 | HotCopper

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Paladin has a 100% interest in the Manyingee Project, located in the north-west of Western Australia. It is a sandstone hosted uranium project consisting of 41Mlb across two deposits.

A field leach trial (FLT) conducted at the Manyingee deposit in 1985 successfully showed it is amenable to extraction by in-situ recovery (ISR).

Paladin believes the Manyingee Project can be developed into an in-situ recovery (ISR) uranium mining operation over a four to five-year timeframe. We have conducted an internal scoping study and set out steps towards this development. Phases include further resource drilling, environmental studies, hydro-geological data collection and interpretation, and metallurgical test work that will culminate in a FLT.

Our FLT will use modern ISR technology and will provide the necessary inputs for a feasibility study used for a final investment decision. At Paladin we envisage targeting production at 15 to 20Mlb over a mine life of more than 10 years.

Our Manyingee Mineral Resource is located 85km inland from the coastal township of Onslow. It is coincident with three mining leases. Access to the areas is along cattle station tracks from the sealed North West Coastal Highway or from shire-maintained gravel roads.

Natural gas pipelines are located close to the eastern side of the Manyingee and Carley Bore Mineral Resources.

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It will happen sooner or later. Later will mean a much higher u308 price of course so oddly the bans will give us more cash than had this silly ban not been in place