Grange Resources Limited (ASX: GRR) is pleased to advise that the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) Bulletin for its Southdown Magnetite iron ore project was released today 30 June 2008. Publication of the EPA Bulletin marks an important milestone in the development of the Southdown Project, which is targeting production of up to 7 million tonnes per annum of premium quality magnetite concentrate from 2012.

The Bulletin provides advice and recommendations from the EPA on the proposed development of the Southdown mine, the pipeline to the Port of Albany and the infrastructure required at the Albany Port for magnetite concentrate storage. The EPA has concluded that it is unlikely that its objectives would be compromised provided there is satisfactory implementation of its recommended conditions and procedures.

The EPA has recommended approval of the project to the Minister for the Environment with those conditions and procedures.

Grange expects the mine environmental approval process to be completed in the 3rd quarter of 2008 with the publication of the Environment Minister's Statement on environmental conditions for the mine and associated infrastructure. The conditions and commitments in the Ministerial Statement set out the conditions to which project implementation is subject.

The Southdown mine, located 100km from Albany, will produce up to 7 million tonnes of high quality magnetite concentrate which will be pumped to Albany via an underground pipeline. From Albany, the concentrate will be shipped to Malaysia where it will be pelletised for sale to fast growing South East Asian and Middle Eastern steel markets, which increasingly rely on high quality iron ore feed.

A copy of the Bulletin may be down loaded here (1mb pdf).

Ecologia’s role with the Grange Southdown Magnetite project encompassed: