In a cruel twist of irony, two of NSW’s premier minerals projects, approved by the NSW Government within just days of one another, have been nullified on the same day through two separate decisions. McPhillamys Gold section 10 declaration The McPhillamys Gold Project in Kings Plains, Blayney, was approved as State Significant Development (SSD) by the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) on 30 March 2023, and proposed to extract up to 60 million tonnes of ore and produce 2 million ounces of gold.