The proposed Ajax Mine would have been located south of Kamloops. (KGHM) The provincial government has opted not to issue an environmental assessment certificate for a proposed open-pit copper and ...

The proposed Ajax mine, a 1,700-hectare open-pit gold and copper mine near Kamloops, B.C., was denied a provincial environmental certificate from the B.C. government Thursday. Environment Minister George Heyman and Minister of Energy and Mines, Michelle Mungall, found the benefits of the 18-year project, which has received …

The Ajax Project is a proposed open-pit gold and copper mine located on the doorstep of the city of Kamloops, B.C., on traditional Stk'emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation (SSN) territory. If approved, the project would irreversibly destroy 1,700 hectares (over 3,000 football fields) of unique and fragile grasslands and waters, which include …

The Ajax project site is located at the southern extremity of the boundaries of the City of Kamloops and southeast along an existing haul road from the Afton mill, and it includes …

The City of Kamloops is hosting the meeting where Interior Health and a group of consultants hired by the city will present the results of independent reviews of the KGHM Ajax mine application. Such is the interest, four hours have been set aside for the meeting which will take place at the Coast Hotel and Conference Centre,1250 Rogers …

A view of the Ajax mine site on the outskirts of Kamloops (photo courtesy of KGHM/Ajax) The Stk'emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation has rejected a proposed open-pit copper and gold mine south-west of ...

The Company also holds a 20% ownership interest, together with KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. (80%), in the proposed copper-gold Ajax Mine located southwest of Kamloops, B.C., which has recently ...

The Ajax Project proposal includes the construction of a copper and gold open-pit mine in Canada, which will strengthen the position of KGHM on the …

Afton Mine, Kamloops, Kamloops Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada : A porphyry copper-gold deposit. The open pit mine, started in 1977, was backfilled after its closure. ... A., & Eng, P. NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Afton-Ajax EW Deposit. Robb, S. (2020). Distribution of platinum group elements in the New Afton alkalic Cu-Au ...

The Company's main asset is a 20% ownership interest, together with KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. (80%), in the proposed copper-gold Ajax Mine located southwest of Kamloops, B.C., which has undergone ...

The B.C. government has rejected the deeply controversial KGHM Ajax mine in Kamloops. The company proposed to build a 1,700-hectare open-pit copper and gold mine about 10 kilometres southwest of the city on …

The Ajax project is a proposed, open-pit copper-gold mine located near and partly within the city limis of Kamloops, British Columbia.

Site Overview. New Afton Mine is a block caving operation, located approximately 10 kilometres outside of Kamloops and 350 kilometres northeast of Vancouver in British Columbia. New Gold Inc. began construction and development of the New Afton Mine in 2007 and reached commercial production in July 2012, following the first draw-bell blast …

The Ajax Project proposal includes the construction of a copper and gold open-pit mine in Canada, which will strengthen the position of KGHM on the international copper producers market. According to the current schedule, KGHM expects to obtain all necessary permits in late 2016 or early 2017. Once obtained they will enable the launch …

A watchdog group says the owner of the proposed AJAX mine near Kamloops could face at least $100 million in compensation or litigation costs if the mine opens, and possibly more.

Iron Mask Project, Kamloops Area By James M. Logan KEYWORDS: Iron Mask batholith, alkalic, porphyry Cu-Au-Pt-Pd, geophysical survey. INTRODUCTION The Iron Mask batholith is located 10 km southwest of Kamloops. It has been host to past producing Cu-Au-Ag porphyry deposits (Afton, Pothook, Ajax West and Ajax

The Afton-Ajax copper-gold project is located near Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada. The measured and indicated resources at the mine are expected to be 442mt grading 0.30% Cu and 0.19g/t Au. An …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abacus Mining & Exploration Corporation ("Abacus" or the "Company") (TSXV: AME) wishes to provide an …

KGHM Ajax Mining Inc. (KAM) has applied for an EA Certificate to develop, operate, and decommission an open-pit copper and gold mine and ore processing facility. The Ajax footprint would be approximately 1,700 hectares (ha) and ... Kamloops (population 90,000) (Figure 1). Some mine infrastructure would be, at its closest, approximately

The proponents of the controversial Ajax mine proposal are looking to get it back off the ground. The proposed mining project, which would have seen a 1,700-hectare open-pit copper and gold mine go into production just south of Aberdeen, was nixed in 2017 by the provincial government following an environmental assessment.

KGHM's proposed Ajax mine near Kamloops could face over $100 million in litigation or compensation costs, according to MiningWatch. Taking as an example what's happening at Canada's only ...

General informationThe Victoria project is located in the Canadian province of Ontario, approximately 35 km west of the city of Sudbury. The project assumes the construction of an underground copper and nickel mine. The owner of the project is KGHM International (). The project is currently in the phase of development and analysis.HistoryIn …

KAMLOOPS - The former face of the proposed Ajax Mine claims he's stuck in Canada with no possibility of working or leaving the country.Clyde Gillespie has filed a civil suit against KGHM Ajax ...

The B.C. government has rejected the $1.5 billion Ajax copper-gold mine in Kamloops, by declining to issue an environmental certificate. The project was the subject of a joint environmental review.

KAMLOOPS — Situated less than a kilometre and a half from dozens of homes in the Aberdeen neighbourhood of Kamloops, the Ajax Mine Project application was rejected by BC's Environmental Assessment Office in December of 2017. Now, nearly three years later, the project that was once thought to be dead has been resurrected.

The old Afton Mine just west of Ajax was put back into production in 2012 by New Gold as the New Afton Mine. ... (80%), in the proposed copper-gold Ajax Mine located southwest of Kamloops, B.C ...

Ajax is owned by Poland-based KGHM (80 per cent) and Vancouver-based Abacus Mining and Exploration Corp. (20 per cent), "We decided that the smaller mines do not fit in our portfolio.

BRITISH COLUMBIA – Kamloops city council voted four-two to oppose the proposed Ajax copper-gold mine 3 km south of the town. Instead, the councillors are drafting a letter to all three political parties in the province to suspend environmental assessment and address their concerns.

A coalition opposed to development of the Ajax mine near Kamloops is rejecting a donation to its cause from the parent company of the proposed open-pit copper and gold operation. The Coalition of Concerned Community Members is an umbrella group representing five organizations.

The controversial Ajax mine project was rejected by both the provincial and federal government, after a joint environmental assessment process that began in 2011. In 2017, Kamloops City Council also voiced …

In early April, the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund team had an opportunity to visit some of our grantees in Secwepemc territory/Kamloops and participate in a declaration of solidarity and support for the Secwepemc decision to reject the proposed Ajax mine. The ceremony brought together Indigenous communities, Kamloops …

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Kamloops This Week Staff Sep 2, 2020 1:16 PM. Investors in the former Ajax mine have hired a superintendent as they look to revive the controversial mining project. Michal Wypych joins KGHM ...

The Kamloops Area Preservation Association has asked the province to increase monitoring of the old Afton/proposed Ajax mine site south of Aberdeen due to "declining water quality" downstream ...

(Kamloops, B.C.) Declining water quality in Peterson Creek, a tributary of the South Thompson River, due to contamination from waste rock at the closed Ajax mine has prompted the Kamloops Area Preservation Association (KAPA) to ask the Government of British Columbia for increased monitoring of effluent from the mine. Water samples of the …

KAMLOOPS — The owners of the proposed Ajax copper-gold mine project south of Kamloops says, four years after the project was rejected by the federal and …