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Gold Standard Ventures Corp. is hoping that the company’s Gold Standard Ventures Corp. is hoping that the company’s South Railroad Project will be permitted as a gold mine by the end of 2022, and the company is looking at two potential public road accesses to the site south of Interstate 80 on the Carlin Trend.
Gold Standard’s chief operating officer, Larry Radford, told Elko County Commissioners he wanted to let them know about the road routes while the official U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s environmental impact statement process is in progress.
“Permitting of the project is under way with the BLM, and we hope by the end of next year it will be permitted,” he said.
Radford reported that the mine operations will all be in Elko County and employ 300 people. The construction phase will require an additional 200 jobs.
He said that although the order under the Trump administration requiring that BLM complete an EIS within one year of starting has been rescinded under the Biden administration, he has faith in the Elko BLM District’s efforts.
“I am confident it can be done by the end of next year,” Radford said.
One option for access to the mine site would be from Elko via Bullion Road and out to South Railroad. The other option would be to drive around South Fork Reservoir and intersect Bullion Road.