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Niocorp Developments submits permit application for Elk project as it aims to minimise environmental impact
Niocorp Developments Ltd (CVE:NB) says it wants to do the “right thing for the environment” as it submitted a pre-construction notification (PCN) permit application to the US army over its waterline for its superalloy materials project in Nebraska.
The watercourse involves linking the project to the Missouri river.
The rest of the proposed 33-mile waterline can be advanced under non-notifying parameters of nationwide permit 12, because it involves no permanent impact to wetlands and stream channels and will have only temporary impacts during construction, the firm added.
Mark A. Smith, chief executive of Niocorp, said the team had worked very hard to continue reducing the environmental footprint of the Elk Creek project, and that’s “why we qualify for this more rapid and streamlined permitting process from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers”.
“We want to do the right thing for the environment, and that is a key reason why we invested more time and resources into further optimizing our plans for the Elk Creek mine and processing facility and the waterline.
“Those optimizations are resulting in a more efficient permitting process, and that is a win for the project, for the environment and for southeast Nebraska.”
Niocorp’s proposed underground mine, surface processing facilities and tailings impoundment are estimated to result in no permanent impacts to any federally jurisdictional waters, and thus will need no discretionary permit from the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), it added.
Niocorp is advancing a superalloy materials project in southeast Nebraska that will produce niobium, scandium and titanium.
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