RE:RE:Any RedTape?The mine and production process as a whole were permitted and in production until roughly the time of the financial crisis or somewhat later.
Since then they have recently improved the engineering of the production process somewhat, so that may require some degree of renewed permitting. The mining plan was already approved in the past but may get some slight tweaks.
The biggest issue was the permit process for building a new road to shorten the haul to tidewater by about 120 km, which would cut total production costs notably. They were about to start on it roughly a year ago or so, but stopped due to permitting issues. My guess is they could operate the mine and use the current road with no new permit. Ultimately they are expecting to get permits to build the shorter road.
WC