{"id":1521,"date":"2017-08-23T21:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T21:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2018-02-23T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T16:00:53","slug":"cobre-mine-public-hearingopen-house-tuesday-august-29-4-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/blog\/cobre-mine-public-hearingopen-house-tuesday-august-29-4-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTION ALERT: Cobre Mine Public Hearing\/Open House – Tuesday, August 29, 4 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cobre-Continental Mine Proposal to Resume Operations\"Cobre-ContinentalMine-small\"<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
Public Hearing,\u00a0Aug 29, 5:30 pm<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
Open House starts at\u00a04:00 pm<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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Freeport-McMoRan Cobre Mining Company has proposed to take the Continental Mine off of standby status and resume operations.<\/p>\n

Inactive since 2007, the company must obtain permits under the NM Mining Act and Water Quality Act to cover operations and reclamation for closure\/closeout, including construction of the 3.6 mile-long Cobre Haul Road that will transport copper ore from the Continental Pit and Hanover Mountain to Chino Mine for processing. There will be a significant amount of blasting to construct the haul road and to mine Hanover Mountain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Cobre filed its application with the NM Mining and Minerals Division (MMD) to come off of standby status. Citing the potential environmental and public health impacts of resuming mining operations at the Continental Mine,\u00a0GRIP requested a public hearing<\/a>, and it was subsequently\u00a0approved<\/a>\u00a0by MMD.<\/p>\n

The Mining and Minerals Division will hold a public hearing on\u00a0Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 5:30 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0at the Grant County Administration Building<\/strong>,\u00a0Commission Chambers at 1400 Highway 180 East in Silver City. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hearing will be preceded by an Open House at 4pm<\/strong>\u00a0at which attendees can ask questions and view maps and photos. Once the hearing has started, the public can make comments on the record for consideration by MMD as it finalizes the permit.<\/p>\n

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For More Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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End Standby Status Application and Continental Mine and Mill Closeout Plan<\/a><\/div>\n
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Cobre Haul Road<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Blasting Plan<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0MMD Approval of Blasting Plan<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cobre-Continental Mine Proposal to Resume Operations Public Hearing,\u00a0Aug 29, 5:30 pm Open House starts at\u00a04:00 pm   Freeport-McMoRan Cobre Mining Company has proposed to take the Continental Mine off of standby status and resume operations. Inactive since 2007, the company must obtain permits under the NM Mining Act and Water Quality Act to cover operations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,10,40,32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-55","category-get-involved","category-news-articles","category-responsible-mining","category-take-action","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}