Richmond-Julia Creek Vanadium Project

Project overview*

EIS status	EIS active
Description	Greenfield open-cut vanadium mine with a yield of up to 4.2 million tonnes per annum run of mine (ROM) ore mined over 25 years.
Proponent	Richmond Vanadium Technology Pty Ltd.
Location/s	Approximately 45 km north-west of Richmond. Map
Local government/s	Richmond Shire Council
Investment	$242 million
Key features	open-cut vanadium mine mine infrastructure areas including a waste rock dump and tailings dam internal access roads truck load-out facility processing infrastructure sewerage and wastewater treatment facilities office buildings and amenities off-lease accommodation village
Construction start date	2025
Jobs	100 (construction) 200 (operational)

* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.

Date	Activity
Currently	Draft EIS being prepared by proponent.
31 March 2023	Terms of reference for an EIS ( 782 KB).
3 December 2022 to 13 January 2023	Draft terms of reference ( 965 KB) for public consultation.
10 May 2022	Gazettal ( 246 KB) of ‘Coordinated project’ declaration.
24 January 2022	Commonwealth Minister for the Environment decided the project is a ‘controlled action’.
12 November 2021	Initial advice statement ( 61.6 MB), submitted.