Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement published for 75-day public review and comment.
Perpetua’s Proposed Action includes improvements that are responsive to public input and designed to improve environmental outcomes.
Perpetua Resources is positioned to provide the only U.S. mined source of antimony, ending reliance on China and Russia for the critical mineral essential to national defense and clean energy transition.
BOISE, ID, Oct. 28, 2022 /CNW/ – Perpetua Resources Corp. (Nasdaq: PPTA) (TSX: PPTA) (“Perpetua Resources” or “Perpetua” or “the Company”) announced today that the United States Forest Service (“USFS”) has released the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (“SDEIS”) on the Stibnite Gold Project (“Project”) for public comment and has identified Perpetua’s proposed action, the “Modified Mine Plan,” as the Preferred Alternative. Identification of the Preferred Alternative by the USFS is a major milestone in the advancement of the Project and provides clarity for the remainder of the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) process.
“The Stibnite Gold Project is one step closer to restoring an abandoned mine site, providing hundreds of family-wage jobs for Idahoans, producing the only domestic mined source of antimony to protect our national security, and supporting America’s clean energy transition,” said Laurel Sayer, President and CEO of Perpetua Resources. “Perpetua submitted an initial plan of restoration and operations six years…
