zed327, Are you new in this game? We have been post so many...

zed327,

Are you new in this game? We have been post so many times about the MTN is not in a National Park. Please make correct statement, otherwise, you only embarrass yourself for ignorance.

Here I want to rest this issue once for all. The following is from MTN company's official response:

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1. So it is not a "pastoral land", right?

Answer: EL3258 is within the boundaries of the Arkaroola Pastoral Lease (No. 2240). The Arkaroola Pastoral Lease is declared a sanctuary under the South Australian National Parks & Wildlife Act 1972. Arkaroola Station itself is a ‘rejected’ place in the Australian Heritage Register. No part of Arkaroola Station has been declared or proclaimed a national park, conservation area, Recreation Park or a regional reserve.

2. Can minerals be mined in Mt Gee, since it is within Environmental Class A within the Development Plan for "Land not Within A Council Area"?

Answer: Objective 2 is regarding the protection of the landscape from damage by mining operations and exploring for new resources. It states that “Mining operations should not take place in the Environmental Class A zone unless the deposits are if such paramount importance and their exploitation is in the highest national of state interest that all other environment, heritage or conservation considerations may be overridden. Deposits which may potentially have the required degree of significance have been identified in the following localities only: the western face of the Heysen Ranges : portion of the Moralana Valley ; portion of the Mt Hack and Mt Uro areas; portion of the Stirrup Iron Range: portion of the East Gammons and the Mt Painter-Freeling Heights area.”

Also please note that the interim report of a scoping study by Coffeys indicates that an underground mine approached from the flat outside the Flinders Ranges is one of out best options.

3. Mt Gee is also on the National Estate List, Can minerals be mined in the area that is on the list?

Answer: We are aware of 3 places in the Arkaroola area are entered in the Register of National Estate. Entry of itself in the Register of the National Estate does not mean that a place is subject to restraints or control, or that management of the place needs to be altered. There are no legal constraints on the way owners of private property, or state or local governments manage or dispose of properties entered in the register of the National Estate. The listing of places on the Register of National Estate is not an impediment in itself to the carrying on of the exploration program of EL3258.
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