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South Star Mining Announces Environmental Permitting Update for 25,000 tpy Phase 2 Plant Operations for the Santa Cruz Graphite Project
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[{"type":"text","content":"South Star Mining Announces Environmental Permitting Update for 25,000 tpy Phase 2 Plant Operations for the Santa Cruz Graphite Project\n \n \n (TheNewswire)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Toronto, ON –\n \n \n TheNewswire -\n \n \n March 29, 2021 –\n \n \n South Star Mining Corp.\n \n \n (\n \n \n ‘South Star\n \n \n ’\n \n \n or ‘the Company’\n \n \n ) (TSXV:\n \n \n STS\n \n \n )\n \n \n (OTC:STSBF)\nis pleased to announce that it has received the environmental\npermitting terms of reference for the 25,000 tonne per year\n(“tpy”) Phase 2 plant operations from the municipality of Itabela,\nBahia (“Itabela”). The Phase 2 environmental permitting process\nfor the Santa Cruz Graphite Project (“Project”) will follow an\napproach and level of studies similar to that of Phase 1.\n \n \n \n \n The Phase 1 operations for the 5,000 tpy pilot plant\noperations are fully licensed, and the Company is preparing to start\nconstruction in August 2021 with commercial production targeted for Q4\n2022. Phase 2 operations will represent a larger scale concentration\nplant currently planned to produce between 25,000 to 30,000 tpy of\nconcentrate. The sizing of Phase 2 plant could be increased depending\non the successes of the Phase 1 operations, on-going development of\ncommercial relationships, and market conditions. Additional details on\nthe Phase 2 operations are available in in the Press Release dated\nFebruary 5, 2020 and in the NI43-101 Prefeasibility Report issued in\nMarch 2020.\n \n \n \n \n The Phase 2 environmental work program will kick off in\nApril 2021 and should include an approximate 7-8-month study and\ndocumentation phase to prepare all the required reports, followed by\nsubmittal to Itabela for review and comment. For reference, the Phase\n1 studies were submitted in August 2019, and the environmental permit\nwas approved and published in March 2020.\n \n \n \n \n Richard Pearce, President and CEO of\n \n \n South Star\n \n \n , commented: “I am pleased\nto announce that the Board of Directors has authorized the\nacceleration of the start of the environmental permitting for the\nPhase 2 operations more than a year ahead of the original schedule. We\nwill start the work shortly and plan to submit ...