Draft Environmental Impact Statement For The Mt Hope Molybdenum Project Of Exxon Minerals Company PDF Download

"The Mount Hope Project is located on public land administered by the Bureau of Land Management and on private land controlled by Eureka Moly, LLC. The 80-year project would have an 18- to 24-month construction phase, 44 years of mining and ore processing, 30 years of reclamation, and five years of post-closure monitoring. Concurrent reclamation would not commence until after the first 15 years of the Project ... Optimal development of the molybdenum deposit, to meet the market conditions and maximize molybdenum production, would utilize an open pit mining method and would process the mined ore using a flotation and roasting process"--Page i.