A day or so after Jeff Ackerman published his recent Union op-ed bemoaning the regulatory hurdles Emgold must overcome in order to get permits to re-open the Idaho-Maryland mine, an article appeared in The Union (“Mine plan pushes forward“) that contains the same kind of biases and inaccuracies found in a typical Emgold press release….
Jeff Ackerman, editor/publisher of The Union, today gave us another of his signature anti-government rants (“Mining? Just fuhgeddaboudit“), this time in the form of an entertainingly peevish complaint about the likely failure of Emgold to get permission to re-open the old Idaho-Maryland Mine in the heart of downtown Grass Valley. He quotes and agrees with…
Emgold, in its latest press release, says that it is in the “advance stage of permitting the Idaho-Maryland project.” Since Emgold was saying the same thing in its press releases over a year ago, and since the city of Grass Valley has been waiting during most of that year for Emgold to submit a…
by Bob Bogart Want to trust your town to a company headed straight down while the underlying value of their “product” is heading straight up? Ask yourself why gold has more than doubled in 5 years and the value of Emgold has fallen by 96%? Ask yourself, if this project is going to be…
Paul Emery, on tonight’s KVMR Evening News, interviewed Idaho-Maryland Mine Company President and CEO David Watkinson. Watkinson indicated that the April 8th deadline set by the city of Grass Valley would be no problem and that he plans to contact the city in January to take the next steps in satisfying their requirements. Presumably this will…