Magellan lead trains halted

Magellan Metals has voluntarily delayed the resumption of lead shipments through the port of Fremantle after trains from its Wiluna mine deviated from thmini coal grinding machinese allowed route. A ban on the company's lead shipments was only lifted recently after they were halted on December 31 when lead carbonate was detected in air samples taken outside double sealed bags in rail containers.

WA’s Office of the Environmental Protection Authority is investigating the latest breach in lead handling procedures by the company. It involved trains carrying lead from the company's mine, 980km northeast of Perth, travelling via Kwinana in the city's south rather than straight to Fremantle, as agreed in an environmental management plan. In a statement from Canada, Ivernia, Magellan's parent company, said OEPA had advised the company that it had received information that trains had deviated. It said Magellan had investigated and learned that its rail transport contractor had diverted 10 trains carrying 159 containers of lead carbonate along a 12km rail section between November 10 last year and January 4...