[3] Operations at Honeymoon were suspended in November 2013, following difficulties in reaching production targets, high costs and a falling uranium price.

[7] In 1981, Minad submitted a Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to the South Australian and Commonwealth governments, and in 1982 established a $3.5 million demonstration 110 t/yr in-situ leach facility.

Before the pilot wellfield and the demonstration plant were commissioned, there was a change of government in both jurisdictions, approval to mine was deferred, and the project was placed in care and maintenance in June 1983.

In November 2013 Uranium One announced "continuing difficulties in the production process and issues in attaining design capacity, combined with high mine operation costs."

[9] In May 1988, total project ownership was transferred to Carpentaria's parent company, MIM Holdings, and in 1997 sold to Southern Cross Resources.