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Current and potential impacts of gold, silver, lead and zinc mining on human health, land, air and water quality in New South Wales

This inquiry was established on 25 July 2023 to inquire into and report on the current and potential impacts of gold, silver, lead and zinc mining on human health, land, air and water quality in New South Wales.

Video recordings of the hearings, where available, can be found on the NSW Parliament's YouTube channel here.

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This inquiry was self-referred on 25 July 2023.

Terms of reference - PC 2 - Impacts of gold, silver, lead and zinc mining on human health - Updated 10 October 2023

Date	Milestone
25 Jul 2023	Self-referred
05 Sep 2023	Submissions closed
18 Sep 2023	Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
03 Oct 2023	Hearing - Coral Sea Room , Orange Ex-Services Club, Orange
04 Oct 2023	Hearing - Auditorium , Club Mudgee, Mudgee
27 Oct 2023	Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
15 Dec 2023	Final Report
14 Mar 2024	Government Response to Final Report
15 Mar 2024	Government Response to Final Report due

Date	Venue Details
18/09/2023	Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney	Schedule	Transcript
03/10/2023	Coral Sea Room , Orange Ex-Services Club, Orange	Schedule	Transcript
04/10/2023	Auditorium , Club Mudgee, Mudgee	Schedule	Transcript
27/10/2023	Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney	Schedule	Transcript

DateSort	Report Name	Tabled Date	Government Response
	Government response - Report No 63 - Portfolio Committee No. 2 - Health - Current and potential impacts of gold, silver, lead and zinc mining on human health, land, air and water quality in New South Wales (PDF)	14/03/2024
	Report No 63 - Portfolio Committee No. 2 - Health - Current and potential impacts of gold, silver, lead and zinc mining on human health, land, air and water quality in New South Wales (PDF)	15/12/2023	Due 15/03/2024

DateSort	Date	Type	Title
2023-12-15	15/12/2023	Media Release	Report tabled
2023-12-06	06/12/2023	Other	Correspondence from Regis Resources Ltd containing responses to certain content in transcripts of evidence for mining impacts inquiry
2023-12-06	06/12/2023	Other	Correspondence from Regis Resources Ltd containing responses to certain content in submissions to mining impacts inquiry
2023-11-15	15/11/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	NSW Health
2023-11-13	13/11/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Independent Planning Commission
2023-11-13	13/11/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mr Anthony McClure, Managing Director, Bowdens Silver
2023-11-13	13/11/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mr Stephen Beaman, Executive Director Regulatory Practice & Services, Environment Protection Authority
2023-11-13	13/11/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mr Tony Chappel, CEO, NSW Environment Protection Authority
2023-11-10	10/11/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	NSW Resources Regulator
2023-11-03	03/11/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Ms Lucy White, Local resident
2023-11-01	01/11/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Ms Lisa Paton and Mr Tony Newman, Local residents
2023-10-25	25/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Ms Susannah White, Mudgee Region Action Group
2023-10-23	23/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mr Jack Ayoub, Organiser, Australian Workers Union, NSW Branch
2023-10-23	23/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Ms Fiona Sim, Vice President, Running Stream Water Users Association
2023-10-23	23/10/2023	Correspondence	Mr Stephen Galilee, Chief Executive Officer, NSW Minerals Council, clarifying evidence he gave at the committee's mining impacts inquiry hearing on 18 September 2023
2023-10-20	20/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Ms Catherine Sullivan, Local resident
2023-10-20	20/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mrs Claire Bennett, Operations Manager, Goldfields Honey Group
2023-10-19	19/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Newcrest Mining Limited
2023-10-19	19/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	NSW Resources Regulator
2023-10-19	19/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Cadia Community Sustainability Network
2023-10-16	16/10/2023	Correspondence	Mr Tony Chappel, Chief Executive Officer, NSW Environment Protection Authority, clarifying evidence he gave at the committee's mining impacts inquiry hearing on 18 September 2023 and providing additional information
2023-10-16	16/10/2023	Correspondence	Mr Stephen Beaman, Executive Director Regulatory Practice & Services, NSW Environment Protection Authority, clarifying evidence he gave at the committee's mining impacts inquiry hearing on 18 September 2023
2023-10-16	16/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mr Tony Chappel, Chief Executive Officer, NSW Environment Protection Authority
2023-10-16	16/10/2023	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Mr Stephen Beaman, Executive Director Regulatory Practice and Services, NSW Environment Protection Authority
2023-10-12	12/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mr Stephen Galilee, Chief Executive Officer, NSW Minerals Council
2023-10-12	12/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mr Michael Boller, Local resident
2023-10-12	12/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mr Michael Boller, Local resident - Photo Koala Bingman Crossing 22 March 2022
2023-10-12	12/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mr Michael Boller, Local resident - Photo Koala in Goorari cattleyards 5 July 2019
2023-10-12	12/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mr Michael Boller, Local resident - Photo Koala near Bingman Log 2 November 2017
2023-10-12	12/10/2023	Answers to Questions on Notice	Mr Michael Boller, Local resident - Photo Koala on Bara Road 21 August 2021
2023-10-12	12/10/2023	Correspondence	Mr Michael Boller, Local resident, clarifying evidence he gave at the committee's mining impacts inquiry hearing on 4 October 2023 at page 27 of the transcript
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Photograph entitled 'Bowdens Dust Plume Lue, May 2017-May 2018', tendered by Dr Peter Bentivoglio
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Photograph entitled 'Diamond Core drilling rigg', tendered by Dr Peter Bentivoglio
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Photograph entitled 'Dust Storm Canowindra 2019', Dr Peter Bentivoglio
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Photograph entitled 'Dust Storm Parkes 2019', tendered by Dr Peter Bentivoglio
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Photograph entitled 'Dust Storm Sydney', tendered by Dr Peter Bentivoglio
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Photograph entitled 'Dust Storm Sydney 2020', tendered by Dr Peter Bentivoglio
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Medicolegal report of Bruce J. Brew AM, Professor of Medicine (Neurology), tendered by Dr Peter Bentivoglio
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Map of major Australian lead deposits (Megatonnes), tendered by Dr David Parry-Okeden
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Map of Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, tendered by Dr David Parry-Okeden
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Louise J. Kristensen, Mark Patrick Taylor, Kingsley O. Odigie, Sharon A. Hibdon, A. Russell Flegal, 'Lead isotopic compositions of ash sourced from Australian bushfires – Abstract', tendered by Dr David Parry-Okeden
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Document entitled 'Mad as Mudgee', tendered by Dr David Parry-Okeden
2023-10-04	04/10/2023	Tabled Document	Figure 14 Lead exposure to adults at privately-owned residences, tendered by Mr Michael Boller
2023-10-03	03/10/2023	Tabled Document	Figure 15 Preliminary Aboriginal Heritage Sites, tendered by Mr Tony Newman
2023-10-03	03/10/2023	Tabled Document	Lisa Paton, 'Additional Evidence for the State heritage Application for the Kings Plans Cultural Landscape', 28 June 2023, tendered by Mr Tony Newman
2023-10-03	03/10/2023	Tabled Document	Dr Michael Davies, 'Filtered Dry Stacked Tailings – The Fundamentals' (paper presented at Tailings and Mine Waste Conference, Vancouver, November 6 to 9, 2011), tendered by Mr Tony Newman
2023-10-03	03/10/2023	Tabled Document	Biodynamic Association, 'Biodynamic Principles & Practices', tendered by Mr Tony Newman
2023-10-03	03/10/2023	Tabled Document	Submission to DPIE, tendered by Mr Tony Newman
2023-10-03	03/10/2023	Tabled Document	Memorandum of Understanding Broula King Tailings Storage Facility, tendered by Ms Catherine Sullivan
2023-09-29	29/09/2023	Media Release	Public Hearings and Site Visits - Orange and Mudgee - 3 and 4 October 2023
2023-09-18	18/09/2023	Tabled Document	Examples of contaminated mine waste water discharge into waterways which flow into NSW national parks - tabled by Mr Warwick Pearse - NSW National Parks Association
2023-07-26	26/07/2023	Media Release	New inquiry into the current and potential impacts of gold, silver, lead and zinc mining on human health, land, air and water quality in New South Wales

Name	Role	Phone	Email
Alex Stedman	Director Committees	9230 2253	[email protected]
Elspeth Dyer	Principal Council Officer	9230 2214	[email protected]
Margaret Pollard	Senior Council Officer	9230 2714	[email protected]
Tina Mrozowska	Council Officer	9230 3775	[email protected]

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No. 1 Malcolm and Prudence Sinclair
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No. 69 Regis Resources
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No. 73 Alkane Resources Ltd
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No. 77 Bowdens Silver Pty Ltd
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No. 78 Belubula Headwaters Protection Group
No. 79 Running Stream Water Users Association
No. 80 Mudgee District Environment Group
No. 81 Aurelia Metals
No. 82 Bathurst Community Climate Action Network
No. 83 Association of Mining Exploration Companies
No. 84 Wellington Valley Wiradjuri Aboriginal Corporation
No. 85 The Wilderness Society
No. 86 CMOC-Northparkes Mines
No. 87 Orange City Council
No. 88 Environmental Defenders Office
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No. 90 Orange and Region Water Security Association
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