HCCA, Red Lady Coalition and town reps fly to Riverton
The three primary entities representing the Upper East River Valley in the potential molybdenum mine issue will be meeting Thursday, March 6 with U.S. Energy executives at their headquarters in Riverton, Wyo. U.S Energy holds the mineral rights to the moly beneath Mt. Emmons (a.k.a. Red Lady) and has been pushing a mine at the site for years. Read More »
…and things will be different next time.
In a January 9 letter, the Colorado Attorney General’s office informed mining company U.S. Energy that the October approval for a Voluntary Clean Up Program (VCUP) has been revoked.
Forest Service in holding pattern over PoO. HCCA will look at the plan…
U.S. Energy Corp. is keeping its promise and continuing with its pursuit of a Plan of Operations (PoO) to mine molybdenum from Mt. Emmons. It hopes to gain further approvals in 2013.
New qualifier racecourse in the works
It’s not often that mining and bicycling meet, but U.S. Energy recently threw organizers of the Leadville 100 qualifier for a bit of a loop. The planned racecourse heads out and back over Kebler Pass—and over property previously managed by Thompson Creek Metals. With that company’s recent departure from U.S. Energy’s proposed molybdenum mine, blessing for racers to bike on mine property on July 31 went with it. Read More »
Company staying in NEPA
Losing a major financial partner is not stopping U.S. Energy from proceeding with plans to move toward a molybdenum mine on Mt. Emmons. Company officials contacted the U.S. Forest Service this week to arrange a meeting and discuss how to best keep moving forward in the process to conduct baseline studies for a mine. Read More »
What’s Mandarin for molybdenum?
The head of Thompson Creek Metals Company knew the impact his company’s decision would have in Crested Butte. “We know we have made a lot of people there happy but we are sorry we can’t continue the good fight to build the mine,” company chairman Kevin Loughrey wrote in an email to the Crested Butte News. Read More »
Stormwater management plan requested
The Water Quality Control Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has amended its Compliance Advisory issued to U.S. Energy in December 2010. The division amended the advisory after accepting comments from the mining company, the town of Crested Butte, and the public. The new advisory will require additional water monitoring points and a plan to control and monitor stormwater runoff from U.S. Energy’s Keystone Mine Site on Mt. Emmons.
The Division is gathering information
The state’s Water Quality Control Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has extended a deadline for U.S. Energy to produce a progress report over water quality standards. Originally the division had asked to see a report by February 1 but that date has now been extended until April 1. Read More »
How safe is the water?
U.S. Energy Corp. will be meeting Friday with representatives from the state’s Water Quality Control Division to get some clarification of the state’s pollution concerns. The mining company responded last week to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment over concerns Coal Creek is being polluted with heavy metals from the mine on Mt. Emmons. Read More »
Town has “significant concerns…”
The first thing to know is that the town of Crested Butte drinking water is fine. Despite a state report showing a major pollution problem emanating from Mt. Emmons, you can drink the water from the tap. But there appears to be a huge pollution situation in the town’s watershed—in particular in Coal Creek. Water tests conducted on property owned by the proposed molybdenum mine on Mt. Emmons showed some huge spikes in poor water quality standards over the last couple of years.
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