Junior sulfate of potash developer Reward Minerals Ltd., Nedlands, Western Australia, reported on Oct. 2 that the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water, and the Environment has granted environmental approval for the Lake Disappointment Potash Project in Western Australia. The company said Lake Disappointment is the first SOP project to be permitted under the dual exacting standards of a six-week public environmental review process at state level, as well as under Part 9 of the federal Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The company said the approval, which is effective through Aug. 31, 2060, speaks to the project’s long-life and low environmental impact.
“This is one of our most significant achievements to date for the project, which now has the major environmental approvals in place that will allow full production at the Pre-Feasibility Study level of 400,000 mt per annum of high quality, organically certifiable SOP for decades to come,” said Reward CEO Greg Cochran.