BULLSHIT BAFFLES BRAINS AT SOLWARA 1

There is a report in the Post Courier 29 September 2012 entitled Solwara 1 won't threaten fish and written by Steve Rogers CEO of Nautilus Minerals.

We have written several reports on this blog that seem to have been the basis of the response by Mr Rogers. Please click:

PANGUNA UNDER THE BISMARCK SEA

There is much that is questionable in the report. Much is omitted that would change the scene on the high seas as Nautilus Minerals goes to work.

Solwara 1 is not located in a primary fishing ground. What does this mean? It is the breeding grounds that are of major concern.

Damage to the environment has to be seen as part of the pollution of the Ramu and Sepik Rivers from Frieda River mine and Marengo mine and the deep sea disposal from Ramu Nico.

Solwara 1 is located 30 km from the coast, well beyond coral reefs and fish stocks. No mention is made of the fact that the mining operations will move around the Bismarck Sea. There will undoubtedly be more than one ship.

Baby tuna move between the Ramu and Sepik estuarine fish nurseries and the Magadus Square.

Tuna are in the top 200 to 400 metres of the surface of the sea. There is no mention of the smelting of gold and the disposal of arsenic and cyanide. There will be scum that rises to the surface. Will smelting take place on the ship?

Robotic equipment will recover the resource to the production vessel where mineralised material is filtered. What of the massive loads of waste material? Is this a mining operation that has no mullock heaps and no disposal of toxic waste? Or will a smelter be built on the shore in New Ireland?

In every gold and copper mine in the world, the ore is crushed.

At Ballarat in 1851, the stampers rolled day and night except on the Sabbath. There were crushers on the Bulolo megalithic machines.

At Panguna, there were giant crushers with rollers that ground the rock into powder for extraction of gold and copper.

But not at Nautilus 1. The mineralised material will be filtered so Mr Rogers says. That is all.

It may well be that the copper lodes will be hundreds of metres under the sea bed. It will not be lying in precise layers of pristine copper.

It will be mined which has to involve blasting. The gold will be extracted with arsenic and cyanide. This toxic material will be released into the sea.

Or will the toxic waste be loaded on the ship to be disposed of elsewhere?

The copper resource is taken from the sea floor to the surface vessel without ever coming into contact with the sea water. There has to be massive amounts of bedrock to be brought to the surface.

Will it be reduced to slime and sucked up? A false picture is being painted here to fool the blackfellas.

There will be no blasting.  Will the bedrock be lifted by suction? Come now Mr Rogers. Does Solwara 1 mean there will be a Solwara 2, 3, 4....10?

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