Final environmental assessment
Subtitle: FMC Corporation's proposed Paradise Peak project
By: prepared by U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Tonopah Resource Area ; with the assistance of Environmental Research & Technology, Inc
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Tonopah Resource Area
Published: 1984
Place of publication: [Tonopah, Nev.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Public lands; Strip mining; Management; Silver mines and mining; Environmental aspects; Gold mines and mining
Other titles: Paradise Peak Project : 
Description: This Final Environmental Assessment (ES) presents the conclusions of environmental analyses of the FMC Corporation Paradise Peak Project, a precious metals extraction operation proposed in Nye County, Nevada. The Paradise Peak Project would involve the construction, operation, and abandonment of facilities for extracting and processing gold/silver ore. These include and open pit mine, processing facilities, waste rock sites, a tailings impoundment, roads and ancillary facilities. The Proposed Project is described in a Plan of Operations submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, Tonopah Resource Area Office, which is responsible for reviewing the plan to determine compliance with BLM regulations governing surface mining under the general mining laws.
Notes: "December 1984"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages R-1-R-6).