Copper Mine Is Planned for the Utah National Monument Trump Shrunk

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Bloomberg News


By Ari Natter
June 21, 2018, 1:45 PM CDT

- Canadian company announces plans to develop former copper mine
- Dump trucks could mix with stunning red sandstone cliffs



The red sandstone vistas in Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument may soon be criss-crossed with dump trucks after a Canadian mining company announced plans to begin operations on land cut from federal protection by President Donald Trump.

Vancouver-based Glacier Lake Resources Inc. announced last week it had acquired a former copper mine on land formerly contained in one of the two national monuments that Trump shrunk last year, a move that was bitterly contested at the time by environmental and Native American groups.

“Surface exploration work will start this summer on the Colt Mesa property and drill permitting will be initiated shortly,” Saf Dhillon, president and chief executive officer of Glacier Lake Resources, said in a statement. The company plans to mine copper, cobalt and other minerals from an area about 200 acres (81 hectares) in size. The mine was last used in 1974, according to the company.

Already, some fresh stakes and a new metal gate have appeared in the area known as Circle Cliffs, which is popular with hikers, climbers and other who come to explore the area’s scenic canyons, Colter Hoyt, a backcountry guide, said in a phone interview. Mining equipment for the project would reach the site via roads that travel through the park and nearby narrow canyons, he said.


Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/copper-mine-planned-for-utah-national-monument-shrunk-by-trump

[Freethinker65]

1. Fuck.

[knightmaar]

2. IM IN UR MONUMENT, MINING UR COPPER

I'm a little sad my nation is part of this, but corporations unchecked are corporations.

I wonder if Trump considered this a good trade deal. After all, it destroys a national monument, which surely brings a joyful tear to his eye, but it also lets a company in another country profit. Sad!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. I suppose it will be the large open-pit style of mine, not a tunnel entrance ...

.... to underground veins.


Let's really screw up the landscape.


There's no smilie for "aw, fuck it", is there?

[progressoid]

4. That didn't take long.

[kimbutgar]

5. At much as we hate this, Utah voted for twitler and he still has a high approval rating there

No sympathy for them. When they start inhaling those toxic fumes from the extraction chemicals and kids get sick. Oh well.

[japple]

6. Oh, but look how much more beautiful it will look when we get done with it.

But wait!!!! There's more: https://www.good4utah.com/news/local-utah-state-news-/new-project-at-kennecott-copper-mine-to-bring-mountain-back-to-life/163514155