China Australia Mining PTY LTD at Hawks Nest, NSW

 

Mineral sand stockpiles from 50 years ago are being recovered by this company. One stockpile is just north of the Hawks Nest golf links. It is visible in radiometric imagery. National Parks seem to be happy with the removal of this radioactive material. It has also been removed from Bundjalung NP.

China Australia Mining was the company's business name from 2021-08-21. Other business names include Greencoast Environmental Rehabilitation. Their official company name changed on 2007-06-21 to China Australia Mining Pty Ltd. The company had used this name up until 2021-08-24. This Australian proprietary company was previously located in SA 5067 (from 2014-01-18 to 2014-09-23), SA 5067 (from 2007-06-21 to 2014-01-18).

AUSGIN imagery identifies Uranium and Thorium minerals in rocks and other deposits, including mineral sand mining waste. It identifies multiple near-beach sites in need of environmental restoration and this is occurring, particularly in New South Wales. The radio-minerals involved include Monazite, Xenotime and Leucoxene. These recovered rare earth minerals are presumably being exported as Ilmenite and processed in China or elsewhere. They are regarded as technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) and are potential hazards.

This is KThU radiometric imagery where Potassium-40 (K) is red, Thorium-232 (Th) is green and Uranium-238 (U) is blue. For more information see MinView and Greencoast Environmental Rehabilitation Pty Ltd.


Other sites:

Cooloola Cove, Dunwich, Southport, Currumbin, Byron Bay, Black Rocks, Crowdy Bay and Hawks Nest. These were the locations of past mineral sand dredging operations.

While these radio-minerals are clearly evident in our Granites and other rock types, they are only visible in silica sand at these locations of past mineral sand processing.

Not only are we exporting these Ilmenite stockpiles from our National Parks long after the original mineral sand mining operation, but we are also NOT accounting for fissile and fertile radioactive material.


Location: Hawks Nest NSW 2324, Australia

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