Start approvals now or face delay, Gulf junior miners warned
Junior explorers across Far North Queensland’s Herberton-Chillagoe region have been urged to get their environmental approvals under way as a priority. Brisbane-based offsets consultancy earthtrade said the EPBC Act process could take between 12 and 18 months. Herberton became famous for a major tin discovery in the 1880s. Precious and base-metals mining ran through the Chillagoe district for…