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South Star Mining Submits Environmental Permitting Documents for Pilot Plant Operations at the Santa Cruz Graphite Project
(via TheNewswire) Toronto, ON - TheNewswire - January 6, 2020 - South Star M...
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[{"type":"text","content":"South Star Mining Submits Environmental Permitting Documents for Pilot Plant Operations at the Santa Cruz Graphite Project(via TheNewswire)\n \n \n\n\n \n \nToronto, ON - TheNewswire - January 6, 2020 - South Star Mining Corp. ('South Star' or 'the Company') (TSXV:STS) is pleased to announce that it has completed and formally submitted the environmental permitting documents to the responsible permitting consortium for the construction and operations of a 5000 tonne/year pilot plant facility at the Santa Cruz Graphite Project. \n\n \n \nRichard Pearce, President and CEO of South Star, commented: \"We are pleased to have completed another big step forward in our march towards production. In short order we will also be submitting the trial mining licensing documents (Guia de Utilizacao - GU) to the National Mining Agency (ANM). The pilot plant operations will provide short-term cash flow from operations and allow us to qualify bulk samples in the marketplace and establish future, firm offtake agreements. We have been working diligently to develop commercial relationships with key players, both in Brazil and internationally, and have received excellent feedback on our sample materials shipped to date. We will monitor closely the permitting process and will be using the first half of 2020 to get the financing in place to construct and commission the pilot plant facilities. Construction is expected to take approximately 8-10 months. We are excited to be moving past our project development stage and focusing all our efforts and attention on near-term construction, commissioning and production.\"\n\n \n \n12 volumes totaling more than 800 pages evaluating environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the project were included in the submittal, including: \n\n \n \n\n\n- General project description and impact study;\n\n\n\n- Fauna and flora inventories and baseline studies;\n\n\n\n- Construction implementation and waste management planning;\n\n\n\n- General closure and reclamation planning;\n\n\n\n- Solids waste management planning;\n\n\n\n- Environmental risk assessment procedures;\n\n\n\n- Ongoing environmental monitoring programs;\n\n\n\n- Emergency action plans; \n\n\n\n- Ongoing educational and community relations planning.\n\n\n\n \n \nThe goal of the pilot plant operations is to prove the economic and technical viability of the Proje...