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Perpetua Resources Awards Contract for Early Cleanup Activities at Historical Mine Site
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n Perpetua Resources Awards Contract for Early Cleanup Activities at Historical Mine Site\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n Perpetua Resources' voluntary improvements to water quality in historical Stibnite mining district expected to begin this summer.\n \n \n \n \n Nationally recognized IMCO Construction selected to lead stream diversion and mine waste cleanup activities.\n \n \n \n \n \n BOISE, Idaho\n \n \n ,\n \n \n June 9, 2022\n \n \n /CNW/ - Perpetua Resources Corp. (Nasdaq: PPTA) (TSX: PPTA) (\"Perpetua Resources\" or \"Perpetua\" or the \"Company\") announced today that it selected IMCO Construction (\"IMCO\") as a partner to begin water quality improvements in the historical Stibnite mining district from July to\n \n October 2022\n \n . Based in\n \n Washington\n \n with a regional office in\n \n Boise\n \n , IMCO is a nationally recognized, award winning firm with technical expertise in industrial, hydro, transportation, water and wastewater construction projects.\n \n \n Water quality at the abandoned Stibnite site has been degraded by elevated levels of arsenic and antimony from millions of tons of unconstrained tailings and other mine waste left behind by previous operators over the last 100 years. Perpetua has been granted permission from the Environmental Protection Agency (\"EPA\") and the United States Department of Agriculture (\"USDA\") to conduct time critical early action cleanup activities. Perpetua has been committed to site restoration as part of the Company's vision and looks forward to taking meaningful steps to improve water quality.\n \n \n \"Action to improve water quality at Stibnite has been needed for decades,\" said\n \n Laurel Sayer\n \n , CEO of Perpetua Resources. \"As we break ground on the first phase of early cleanup efforts this summer, IMCO brings a track record of successfully executing complex projects safely and a set of shared values. Isolating streams away from historically contaminated material is a first step in fulfillin...