Fireweed Metal’s PEAThere is not a single mine that would truck out millions of tonnes of rock as it would be uneconomical as smelters process only concentrates.
For instance, Fireweed will process their ores on site & transport the concentrates by trucks to Skagway Port in Alaska for shipment to Asia for smelting.
SEE: Fireweed's PEA TAILINGS DISPOSAL The study base case for the nearby tailings management facility is conventional tailings slurry disposal in a valley fill arrangement with the tailings embankment designed to be a rock-filled structure with granular filter zones on the upstream face. The embankment construction material will be borrowed from the tailings management facility impoundment where possible and the entire facility will be lined with a HDPE geomembrane liner."