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Liberty Gold Advances Black Pine Gold Project in Idaho with Submission of the Draft Mine Plan of Operations
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Liberty Gold Corp. (TSX:LGD; OTCQX...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Liberty Gold Advances Black Pine Gold Project in Idaho with Submission of the Draft Mine Plan of Operations\n\n\n\n VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Liberty Gold Corp. (TSX:LGD; OTCQX:LGDTF) (\"Liberty Gold\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce two major milestones for its flagship Black Pine Oxide Gold Project (“Black Pine”) in southern Idaho, USA. Firstly, the formal submission of the draft Black Pine Mine Plan of Operations (“MPO”) to the United States Forest Service (“USFS”), the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”), the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (“IDEQ”), and the Idaho Department of Lands (“IDL”); and secondly, the successful execution of an interagency Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) between Liberty Gold, USFS, BLM, the Idaho Governor’s Office of Energy and Mineral Resources (“OEMR”), the IDEQ, and the IDL, to facilitate coordination of the entire mine permitting process for Black Pine.\n \n\n The draft MPO is based on the recently published Preliminary Feasibility Study (see press releases dated\n \n October 10, 2024\n \n and\n \n November 21, 2024\n \n ) with a general site layout shown in Figure 1 below.\n \n\n\n Figure 1: Black Pine Draft Mine Plan of Operations General Site Layout\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Liberty Gold has worked closely with regulatory authorities, stakeholders, and the local community to ensure the draft MPO adheres to the highest environmental and operational standards and anticipates continued engagement with stakeholders to address feedback and advance the project through the permitting and approval process. The draft MPO submission is the precursor leading to initiation of the federal permitting process under the National Environmental Protection Act (“NEPA”), which will include the completion of an Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”).\n \n\n The EIS process will be co-led by the USFS and the BLM and will include a detailed review of the MPO, public scoping meetings, analysis of extensive baseline studies, and an assessment of potential environmental and socioeconomic effects with proposed mitigations. Cooperating regulatory agencies, including OEMR, IDEQ, IDL and other federal and state entities, wi...