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Northeastern CanadaFoxtrot Rare Earth Project - Public Comments Period
OTTAWA, the 15 Jan. 2018 / CNW /
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) has initiated a federal environmental assessment of the Foxtrot Rare Earth Mine Project, located approximately 10 kilometers west of St. Lewis, Newfoundland and Labrador .
The Agency invites the public and Aboriginal groups to comment on the components of the environment that may be affected by this project and on the elements to be considered during the environmental assessment, as they are described in the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Guidelines. After taking into account all comments, the Agency will finalize the guidelines and provide them to the sponsor, Search Minerals Inc.
This is the second of four opportunities for the public to comment on the environmental assessment of this project. All comments received will be considered public.
https://www.newswire.ca/fr/news-release ... 00083.htmlThe government page on the project:
http://ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/evaluations/proj/80143?
About the Proposal
Search Minerals Inc. is proposing the construction, operation, decommissioning and abandonment of a rare earth element mine located at 36 kilometers southeast of Port Hope Simpson and 10 miles west of St. Lewis, Newfoundland and Labrador.
As proposed, the Foxtrot mine would have an estimated life of 14 years; the first eight of which would be open pit mining while the last six years would be underground mining. During the open pit operations, 6 would be mined for the month (May to October), at a rate of 2000 tons per day. The underground phase of the 12 1000 12 tons of day. The project would include an open pit, an underground mine, a waste dump, a low-grade stockpile, a run-of-mine stockpile, a dry stack tailings facility, a polishing pond, an access road, a central ore processing plant, transmission lines (XNUMX kilometers in length), an effluent drainage pipe, chemical storage tanks for processing agents (hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, and magnesium carbonate), a sulfuric acid pipeline, and a variety of administrative and accommodation buildings.