Annual Report For the Period 11 August 2016 to 10 August 2017 EL 30226 Dhupuma Plateau

Abstract

During the reporting period no bauxite drilling programs were implemented, the exploration works focussed on studies to advance the Mine Management Plan (MMP) requirements for the mining permitting of the Dhupuma Bauxite project. The primary purpose of an MMP is to formalise the actions to be taken and strategies to be implemented, that combined, will manage impacts to the environment to acceptable and sustainable limits over both the short and long-term. In the reporting period this work included flora and fauna and hydrology and hydrogeology surveys, a Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) study and establishment of both a surface water monitoring program and groundwater monitoring bore drilling and installation program.