I didn't realize this was so water intensive.?? could this be what is holding us back??
Gindalbie Metals has applied for a five gigalitre licence, about 80 per cent of the available recharge from a subsection of the Parmelia Aquifer. The water is beneath Mingenew, a region known as Australia's golden triangle of lupin production.
The Mid West is on the verge of a mining boom with about 13 billion tonnes of iron ore pegged, worth an estimated $1.3 trillion.
But most of the ore surveyed is magnetite, a lower grade product that needs water to be processed for China's steel making industry
