Mine enhancement to Seven Summits Trail

So, you're complaining about ruining someone else's private land and trespassing on it Because the owner now wants to use it? 

Bentobox that's a wildly inaccurate statement.  :)

The sardonic message is this:

"From the onset of learning about the RRIMM Project, local concerns raised by the City have included general provisions related to environmental / ecosystem damage, wildlife protection, recreational sites impact, project accessibility, traffic pattern volume changes, and potential onsite/offsite contamination. Similar concerns from the community have also been advanced to the City from residents and local groups"

Owning the mineral rights is not the same as owning the land.  Hopefuly Trail Times will correct this  passage in their story:

 "  WHY owns 8,900 hectares of land at Record Ridge  "

Exactly.  Just ask Wiebo Ludwig about mineral rights. 

My bad, You own the land?

The proposed pit is on crown land; other aspects of the proposed project are sited partially on crown land.   For details see page 11 (.pdf page 30) of the consultant's report.

I've added the project layout map .pdf  to my original post, above.   The map can be found on page 81 (.pdf page 100) of the consultant's report.  The proposed pit is off of the east side of seven summits trail,  the suggested tailings dump straddles the south end of the trail.  

No worries that re-routing the trail would lead to to anyone missing out on the action - whatever route the trail took there would be no missing out on the excitement of 250 tons of mountain per hour  moving from the pit to the crusher then onward to processing or the tailings dump. 

If interested in perusing the consultant's report note that it is 377 pages long so probably better to download it rather than view it online.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.miningdataonline.co...

If you thought housing was expensive in this town now....just wait if this happens.

Just uploaded a second .pdf map  -  "Record Ridge Project Infrastructure layout" 

Source: Page 98 (.pdf page 117) of the consultant's report.   Smaller scale than the previously posted map but unlike that map this one includes the route of Seven Summits Trail. 

It's all about giving the impression that they have hit the motherlode and that full scale production is imminent, for people to invest.

It was only 5 years ago when Western High Yields stock was halted on the TSX for a month. That's when they said that another company was going to buy them for $750 million but they couldnt even come up with the initial $500 000.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/west-yield-s-750-million-sale-dr...

https://calgaryherald.com/business/local-business/west-high-yield-settle...

The Record Ridge grasslands are well known for the presence of a diversity of plants such as the bitterroot, onion grass, numerous species of Lomatium and a host of other species in a unique combination. In addition to the grasslands, mountain holly fern (Polystichum scopulinum) is known to occur on Record Ridge, this is the only known occurrence of this provincially red-listed fern that is also listed as threatened by COSEWIC. It met criteria for Endangered, B1ab(iii,v)+2ab(iii,v), but designated Threatened because of the uncertainty about the imminent threats from mining activities at the British Columbia sites.

The BC Eflora listing is here: (https://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Polystichum%20scopulinum&redblue=Both&lifeform=5)

The BC Conservation Data Centre has, sinse 2018, listed the area as a Red Listed Idaho fescue - bluebunch wheatgrass - silky lupine - junegrass grassland. This high elevation grassland occurrence is based on field sampling for biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification (BEC)

For the comprehensive report and mapping: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/reports.do?elcode=CEBC003132

This information was given to the councilour representing the City of Rossland on the MDRC. 

The Kootenay Native Plant Society(KNPS), West Kootenay Naturalists and Botany BC have hosted events that have highlight and documented the uniqueness of the ecosystem. 

A group of locals who are passionate about this area is persuing the potential for conservation status for these grasslands and plans to reach out to indiginous groups about the mining threat to the area.

Thanks Ramondo for posting about this and your links to the reports, much appreciated. We drove out to the summit to see where all this is supposed to happening according to the map in the report. Looks like they want to blast open the top of the mountain there where the ski trails start just above the parking at the summit in one of the prettiest areas around, most unfortunately. Hope it doesn't go ahead.

Where do people think magnesium should come from?  Maybe some third world country?  Or maybe somewhere really remote so we have to build roads and infrastructure into pristine areas (but with no neighbours)?  I find it ironic that we live in a historical mining town, and people are opposed to mining nearby.  I'm not saying we shouldn't be vigilant in regards to this project's various impacts, but it seems terribly NIMBY to be categorically opposed to it.