Honeymoon Uranium Mine

Boss Resources Limited

In-situ recovery (ISR) is the chemical process of extracting minerals from the host rock underground through the utilisation of specially designed wellfields. Where the ore exists in an underground aquifer, as is the case at Honeymoon, oxygen and a weak acid mining solution is pumped through the ore body to dissolve the uranium minerals. The dissolved uranium is then pumped to the surface, where it is processed via solvent extraction (SX), dried and packaged for export.

The Honeymoon project consists of ML 6109 and MPL 15

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Company released resource estimates and production statistics for South Australia's major operating and approved mines are summarised in South Australia's major operating/approved mines: resources estimates and production statistics (PDF, updated regularly).

Program for environment protection and rehabilitation (PEPR)

• Honeymoon Uranium Mine - Program for Environment Protection and Rehabilitation, Mining Lease 6109, Miscellaneous Purposes Licences 15 & 92, 18 March 2015 (PDF 37.3MB)

The Honeymoon Operations MARP provides a background to the project, details of constructed project infrastructure, description of the proposed operational activities, an assessment of the environmental social and economic risks resulting from the operations of the project, management, mitigation and control measures to ameliorate residual risk, and details of the project closure.

• Mining and rehabilitation program Honeymoon uranium mine, issued 2011 (PDF 10.3MB)
• Mining and rehabilitation program - attachments (PDF 10.0MB)
  Includes information on groundwater flow, flora and fauna, landscape function, waste disposal and management.
• Low level radioactive waste repository (PDF 945KB)
  The construction management plan for a low level radioactive waste repository provided to the Environment Protection Authority.

South Australia’s uranium mines and processing facilities are required to report incidents involving the unplanned release of radioactive process materials, radioactive liquids or radioactive wastes associated with the physical and chemical processing of uranium ores, following standard criteria and procedures.

• Honey moon uranium incident reports
• Honeymoon spill incident summary from the demonstration plan (1999-2001)