Yukon Nevada Gold Corp T.YNG

Queenstake Resources

[romara]

I just got this from The Elko News Mining section.....Richard

NDEP, Queenstake still working on mill restart

Published: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:20 PM CDT

STATELINE — The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection is still working with Yukon-Nevada Gold subsidiary Queenstake Resources on restarting the mill at the Jerritt Canyon Mine north of Elko.

“We had meetings even this week,” NDEP Administrator Leo Drozdoff told the Nevada Mining Association at the association convention in Stateline Saturday.

NDEP’s Bureau of Mining Regulation and Reclamation Chief David Gaskin said the agency and Queenstake are working on a consent degree that goes beyond required mercury air emission controls.

He said the degree covers all aspects of environmental issues at Jerritt Canyon, which Yukon-Nevada shut down in August 2008, laying off 400 people.

NDEP gave the company temporary permission in the spring to restart the mill with the provision that it install new mercury controls by May 30, but the company missed the deadline.

NDEP then ordered the mill shut down again, and the agency and Queenstake have been working on the new consent degree since the company installed the new equipment a few weeks after the deadline.

Yukon-Nevada has gold ore stockpiles at Jerritt Canyon that it hopes to process to bring in revenue for the Canadian company and help it pay back bills and obligations. — By Adella Harding

[romara]

I just talked with Adella Harding of the Mining Quarterly....she was at the  Nevada Mining Association at the association convention in Stateline Saturday, and was talking to people about the mill and mine....so her story is in the newspaper today...just a follow up .........Richard

[aristoenigma]

Hi Richard did you have a chance to suggest to Adella that vacations are playing a part in the delay? She could certainly re-ask the question of the NDEP on the delay as a burrowing reporter.

[romara]

arisro.... yes, I did,,,,and I also told her about the cost of the delay...paying workers with no money coming in. I mentioned about the people who had to sign off on the Consent Decree were away on holidays...it kind of took her back....but she responded by saying or implying that everyone is entitled to a vacation.......imagine if someone got injured...and couldn't make it back to work for 6