Final environmental assessment

Alternate Titles

• Paradise Peak Project

Description

This Final Environmental Assessment (ES) presents the conclusions of environmental analyses of the FMC Corporation Paradise Peak Project, a precious metals extraction operation proposed in Nye County, Nevada. The Paradise Peak Project would involve the construction, operation, and abandonment of facilities for extracting and processing gold/silver ore. These include and open pit mine, processing facilities, waste rock sites, a tailings impoundment, roads and ancillary facilities. The Proposed Project is described in a Plan of Operations submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, Tonopah Resource Area Office, which is responsible for reviewing the plan to determine compliance with BLM regulations governing surface mining under the general mining laws.

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