[11] Agincourt Resources, the owner of the mine at the time, spun off its uranium exploration by forming Nova Energy in April 2005.

Uranium mining at Lake Way is not a new project but dates back to 1978, when it was first proposed by the Wyoming Mineral Corporation and Delhi International Oil.

In 1982, the Australian Government granted Delhi International permission to develop the mine, but the project was suspended in the following year.

[17] In February 2010, Toro received advice from the Western Australian Minister for Environment, Donna Faragher, that the government had dismissed an appeal against the level of environmental assessment protocols for the Wiluna project.

[19] Western Australian MP Robin Chapple queried why radioactive uranium oxide and ore was still lying around unburied and unfenced at Lake Way in 2010, after an earlier question on the same subject had been raised in 2000.