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Canadian government approves Seabridge's KSM mine project in British Columbia

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Terri Theodore
The Canadian Press
via The Huffington Post, New York
Friday, December 19, 2014

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada -- The federal government approved Friday the environmental assessment application for the massive KSM gold and copper mine in northwestern British Columbia near the Alaska border.

The mine, owned by Seabridge Gold Inc., is considered the largest undeveloped gold reserve in the world and has copper, silver, and molybdenum deposits.

The project would be just 35 kilometres from the Alaska border, and in August the state took the rare step of asking the Canadian government for involvement in the approval process over concerns for its rivers and fish.

But the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency concluded in its report that the KSM project isn't likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/19/ksm-gold-mine-bc-environmental-a...



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