Cadia GoldMine operators were requested to pay $ 350,000 of fines and were convicted of three crimes after the claim before New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority.
Cadia Holdings Limited, who is circulating in Wadi Kadia’s operations, has admitted that he is guilty of three crimes under the Environmental Protection Law on the violations of the clean air regulations in the mine in the center of West New South Wales.
Judge Sarah Bretshard issued her ruling in the Land and Environment Court on Monday.
The mining operator was fined $ 150,000 for crimes in November 2021, March 2022, and $ 200,000 for a crime in May 2023, but given a decrease in the penalty of the matter due to its approval of guilt and other mitigation factors.
The legal costs of the Environmental Protection Agency should also pay and cover the cost of installing the new “dust tracking system” in Mudgee.
Brittchard ordered that the Neumont Australia, the owner of the mine, published the ruling in a printed advertisement in three newspapers, on Facebook and X.
Newmont acquired the former owner, NewCrest, in November 2023.
The Environmental Protection Agency began investigating the Western Central mine in 2023 after the water testing program that is driven by the community, which found high levels of heavy metals in rainwater tanks for some nearby housing.
She later found that these levels were caused by dust emissions. The mine operator exceeded the standard focus of the solid molecules emitted from the mineral surface exhaust fans in the main ventilation opening, known as the 8 VR8.
In June 2023, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency in New South Wales, the largest golden mine in Australia, criticized the “completely unacceptable” levels of air pollution after the test revealed that it was emitting more than 11 times the legal limit of dust containing heavy metals.
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The Environmental Protection Agency ordered the operators to take immediate action to reduce air pollution after they provided the results of the initial air pollution test to the Environmental Protection Agency.
This report found that VR8, also known as “venting the crusher” because it extracts the polluted air from where the crushed underground was crushed, was expelled between 200 and 570 milligrams per cubic meter of dust – more than 11 times the regulatory limit of air pollution.
This was despite the new ventilation system that included installing a bag home, holding a 1 ton of dust per hour.
At that time, the CEO of EPA, Tony Chapel, said that the level of pollution recorded in the test results is “completely unacceptable” and that the mine was not less than its legal obligations to meet clean weather standards.
He said: “The regulation of clean air states that for any source of pollution, which is this ventilation, the maximum allowed dust is 50 milligrams per cubic meter.” “This is the criterion that we are talking about when we say they must comply immediately.”
