Applications for Abstraction and Impoundment Advertisement Requirement

Dalradian Gold Ltd applied for authorisation for two abstraction and impoundment (listed below) at the proposed Curraghinalt Mine, adjacent to 80 Mullydoo Road, Greencastle, County Tyrone, BT79 7QP (E258418, N383902) Applications were submitted to NIEA on the Wednesday 24^th April 2024 and deemed complete on the Monday 29^th April 2024.

Documents submitted to the Department in support of the applications include:

• Abstraction of surface water and storage in the Clean Water Pond. (Application Reference AIL/2024/0003)
  1. Application form for abstraction of surface water (AIL/2024/0003)
  2. Supporting documentation for surface water abstraction application (November 2020 Report) (AIL/2024/0003)
  3. Kaya Letter Dated 17^th December 2021
  4. Kaya Letter Dated 28^th January 2022
  5. Gahan and Long Letter Dated 28th January 2022
  6. DAERA spreadsheet of responses to 2020 application (ref AIL 2020/0105 and AIL 2020/0106)
• Abstraction of Mine Water through dewatering of the underground mine and storage within the West Pond. (Application Reference AIL/2024/0004)
  
  7. Application form for abstraction of mine water (AIL/2024/0004)
  8. Supporting documentation for mine water abstraction (November 2020 Report) (AIL/2024/0004)
  9. Kaya Letter Dated 17^th December 2021
  10. Kaya Letter Dated 28^th January 2022
  11. Gahan and Long Letter Dated 28th January 2022
  12. DAERA spreadsheet of responses to 2020 application (ref AIL 2020/0105 and AIL 2020/0106)

Any representations made on the previous applications reference number AIL/2020/0105 and AIL/2020/0106 will be made available to the PAC and do not need to be repeated. However, the documents in support of the current application include additional information namely the following which has not been previously consulted on and will not therefore have been addressed in previous representations:

• Kaya Letter Dated 17^th December 2021
• Kaya Letter Dated 28^th January 2022
• Gahan and Long Letter Dated 28th January 2022
• DAERA spreadsheet of responses to 2020 application (ref AIL 2020/0105 and AIL 2020/0106)

You can view the previous applications (AIL/2020/0105 and AIL/2020/0106 here

You may contact Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) of DAERA to request copies of the new applications in either electronic version via email, or a paper copy by post. Please quote reference number:  AIL/2024/0003 & AIL/2024/0004 in any correspondence. 

How to Respond

Please send any comments on the Application to:
AIL@daera-ni.gov.uk

Please include the AIL reference number above.