Recycling Sludge, Recovering Gold, Restoring Country

This is not a conventional mining project, demonstrated through its dual economic and environmental purpose, with shared benefits for multiple stakeholders. While Huntly Common is working towards getting the necessary approvals, and aspires to gather support from the many stakeholders, the company believes that its plans align well with the City of Greater Bendigo’s Reimagining Bendigo Creek Plan, effectively delivering on its goals and objectives of the plan at no cost to the community.

That Plan – a joint restoration initiative between the City of Greater Bendigo, Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, the State Government of Victoria, water authorities and companies, and the local community – sets out to restore Bendigo Creek by improving catchment, creating flood resilient communities, strengthening and diversifying natural areas, and restoring aquatic habitats and ecosystem function of the Creek and its tributaries by restoring natural channels and drains. It “marks the beginning of a process of renewal, understanding and connection over many generations, and aims to create a healthier, more inclusive, more connected and more beautiful Creek that we all respect and value”. 

A referral for an Environment Effects Statement (EES) was submitted and accepted by the Minister’s office in December 2020, and officially accepted by the Minister for Planning in March 2021.