The Grawin Glengarry Sheepyards Miners Association (GGSMA) has called a public meeting for Friday November 28.
The meeting is to explain its reasons for the “imminent cancellation of the mining title to the Mulga waste dump.”
The move comes just a year since the GGSMA was granted the title and about nine months since it began taking mine waste from diggings in the Wee Warra and Mulga fields.
The dump is the first since changes to the Mining Act put the onus on miners to dispose of waste mine materials.
Previously mullock dumps were operated by the Department of Mineral Resources and there were no restrictions on noodlers using the dumps.
If the waste dump were closed then miners would be responsible for the disposal of their own mine waste,according to a spokesman for the GGSMA.
The GGSMA had no public liability to cover accidents to noodlers and they had been putting themselves at risk with groups descending on trucks to get the opal clay as the waste was being  tipped out, he said.
While the Mining Act under sections 12(4) and 175A(ii) had penalties of up to $5500 or six months in gaol for trespassing on a mining claim the association was not confident police would – or would be able to put a dent into the noodler’s activities, he said.
They were also concerned that police would prefer the GGSMA to take civil action for trespass rather than charge noodlers with criminal offences.
All miners in the Grawin, Glengarry Sheepyard area were urged to attend Friday’s public meeting as they were all affected by the decision to close the dump, the spokesman said.
The meeting will be held at the Grawin Social Club beginning at 9am.
Representatives from the Mines Minister, Kerry Hickey and the Department of Mineral Resources had been invited to attend.
The meeting would be held outdoors and people were urged to bring a chair.