General News
6 March, 2024
Mine targets dust and noise
DUST from a nearby tungsten mine blowing over the tiny township of Mt Carbine will soon cease to be an issue, with the construction of a high bund wall along the mine perimeter well underway.
MT Carbine’s tungsten mine operations manager Ryan MacNeill said although there had been few complaints about excessive dust or noise, the high earth bund wall would prevent a majority of dust and machinery noise from affecting nearby dwellings.
More than 600,000 tonnes of earth fill has been transported from other sections of the site to form the massive bund.
“When the wall is finished in two months’ time we will regularly water down the area on the inside of the bund and we believe that will prevent most of the dust from going near any houses, but the prevailing wind blows from the south-east taking it away from houses anyway,” Mr MacNeill said.
“We have been doing everything we can to mitigate truck movements and limit dust.”
Mt Carbine publican Mitch Newman said he had “no issues” with dust or noise coming from the mine and when finished the bund wall should stop any complaints.
EQ Resources Mt Carbine Project has been shifting up a gear with tungsten concentrate production from existing stockpiles but has plans to go underground in the near future to mine richer lodes of the valuable steel hardening mineral.
The company acquired the mine and quarry site in 2019 in a joint venture with global commodities and metals recycling group, CRONIMET and since then has been commissioned and expanded to 300,000 tonnes per annum capacity.
EQ Resources employ 98 full time staff and 50 contractors drawn mainly from the Tablelands, Mossman and Julatten areas.
