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Cowal <strong>Gold</strong> Project – Cyanide Management Plan 1.3 OVERVIEW OF EXISTING ENVIRONMENT The region supports mainly dryland agriculture with irrigation farming practised in the Jemalong/Wyldes Plains to the north-east of Lake Cowal. The general landscape of the area is flat to very gently undulating land with occasional hills such as Wamboyne Mountain. Lake Cowal is part of the wider Lachlan River valley. When full, Lake Cowal overflows into Nerang Cowal to the north which in turn overflows to Manna Creek, Bogandillon Creek and ultimately into the Lachlan River. The Lake Cowal wetland forms part of the Wilbertroy-Cowal wetlands which includes Lake Cowal, Nerang Cowal and Bogandillon Swamp. The Wilbertroy-Cowal wetland system has been described as one of the most significant waterbird concentration areas in NSW by the Australian Heritage Commission (1992). In 1992 the Lake was listed by the Australian Heritage Commission on the Register of the National Estate. Lake Cowal provides, albeit episodically and for relatively short periods of time, habitat for wetland bird life that is of national significance. 1.4 PROJECT OVERVIEW The Project includes the construction, operation and rehabilitation of the Cowal <strong>Gold</strong> Mine. Key features of the Project are shown on Figures 1 and 2 and include: • an open pit; • a processing plant to extract the gold from the mined ore; • waste rock emplacements which will contain mined rock which has no commercial quantities of gold; • two tailings storages which will contain the slurry residue from the processing plant; • a lake isolation system between the mine and the lake to separate the mine from Lake Cowal over the long term; • a new relocated public road constructed in a new travelling stock reserve adjoining the western boundary and part of the northern and southern boundaries of ML 1535; and • a water pipeline and borefield located approximately 20 km to the north-east of the mine site. The Project also includes a 132 kilovolt (kV) electricity transmission line from Temora to the mine site and upgrading of an access road to the mine site (Figure 1). A description of activities associated with the Project is provided in Table 1. Further details of activities associated with the mine site are provided in Section 2 of the Project Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) (North Limited, 1998) and in various Project management and operational plans. HAL-02-07/1/25/CMP-01-Q.DOC 4 BARRICK
HAL-02-07 Task 25 CMP_003D Northern Tailings Storage Southern Tailings Storage Access Road Northern Waste Emplacement Ore Stockpile and Process Plant Area Southern Waste Emplacement Open Pit ML1535 Temporary Isolation Bund Perimeter Waste Emplacement Lake Protection Bund LEGEND Mining Lease Boundary Major Project Infrastructure 0 500 Metres 1000 Source: Aerial Photo AAM Surveys, August 2002 Source: After North Limited, 1998 Cyanide FIGURE 2 Management Plan Conceptual Layout of Major Mine Infrastructure
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