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…
Paul Emery, on last night’s KVMR Evening News, interviewed Joe Heckel, Grass Valley’s Community Development Director, about the status of Emgold’s Idaho-Maryland Mine project. Heckel essentially confirmed Mayor Lisa Swarthout’s statement to David Watkinson, CEO of the Idaho-Maryland Mine Company, in September of 2009, that the city had decided to require a revised DEIR. In his…
Originally published in the Mail & Guardian, Nov 12, 2010, as “Rising water, rising fear: SA’s mining legacy.” Reprinted with permission of the author by MARA KARDAS-NELSON Environmental activist Mariette Liefferink’s four-inch crimson heels still sport their Woolworths sticker as they puncture the sulphuric crust lining Robinson Lake, situated in the Western Basin of the…