SURFACE

Work starts on Sandy Ridge

CONTRACTORS have mobilised to site and broken first ground on stage one enabling works as Australia’s first dual near-surface kaolin clay mine and arid near-surface geological waste repository starts to take shape.

 Sandy Ridge conceptual plan

Sandy Ridge conceptual plan

Owned by Tellus Holdings, the Sandy Ridge facility sits on a 70 million year old kaolin clay bed 240km from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia's Goldfields. Tellus recently secured federal environmental...

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