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Huge mineral deposits to provide jobs, royalties
By Tom Fletcher Black Press
One of the biggest copper and gold ore deposits in the world has received an environmental assessment certificate to begin development of a mine near Stewart in northwestern British Columbia. Seabridge Gold’s KSM mine property includes four ore bodies that contain silver and molybdenum as well as gold and copper. The company plans a combination of open-pit and underground mining to extract ore and a pair of tunnels to transport up to 120,000 tonnes a day to a processing area 23 kilometres away. Seabridge expects a construction period spanning 20 years and a mine life of 50 years, with 1,800 construction jobs and more than 1,000 employees to operate the mine. Seabridge chief executive officer Rudi Fronk says the company’s next step is to secure a financing partner, an effort buoyed by the permit and discovery last year of a new ore body with higher copper content. He adds it will take at least two years for a partner to reach a final investment decision. Seabridge has a benefits agreement with the Nisga’a Nation, whose territory was defined by a treaty in 2000, and the province has agreed to a 37.5 per cent share of provincial mineral royalties to be paid to the Nisga’a. Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett says the recent completion of the Northwest Transmission Line to extend the BC Hydro electricity grid to the region made this mine possible, as well as a molybdenum mine at Kitsault and the Red Chris copper-gold project near Dease Lake. “This is one of the biggest mines that have been permitted in the province. It’s on a scale with Highland Valley Copper [near Kamloops], with Fording River or Elkview coal mines in the southeast, major mines that will really make a difference in our economy.” The KSM project still requires federal approval, expected by October. Fronk says the federal review has agreed with the province
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