Draft environmental impact statement
Subtitle: Marigold Mine expansion project
By: Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca Field Office
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca Field Office
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Winnemucca, Nev
Language: eng
Subjects: Public lands; Management; Marigold Mine (Humboldt County, Nev.); Environmental aspects; Abandoned mined lands reclamation; Gold mines and mining; Reclamation of land
Other titles: Marigold Mine expansion project : 
Description: Glamis Gold, Inc./Rayrock Mines, Inc., doing business as Glamis Marigold Mining Company (GMMC) proposes to construct new facilities and expand existing gold mining operations at the Marigold Mine in Humboldt County, Nevada.  The mine is located on public and private lands near Interstate Highway 80 approximately 13 miles northwest of battle Mountain and approximately 40 miles southeast of Winnemucca.  The proposed Marigold Mine Expansion Project would disturb approximately 462 acres of private land and 255 acres of BLM-administered public land, for a total of 717 acres.  The proposed project would include: expansion of two pits and development of two new pits; expansion of two waste rock dumps and development of two new waste rock dumps; addition of lifts to three existing heap leach cells, addition of one cell to an existing leach pad, and development of a new heap leach facility; expansion of the tailings impoundment and construction of a new tailings impoundment; haul roads, solution ponds, growth media stockpiles, exploration drill pads and access roads, and diversion channels; and realignment of a public access road (Buffalo Valley Road) and power line.  The Proposed Action would extend the mine operations an additional 5 years through 2006.  This draft environmental impact statement analyzes the environmental effects of the Marigold Mine Expansion Project, the 8-South Partial Pit Backfill Alternative, and the No Action Alternative.
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"January 2000."

"BLM/WN/PL-00/003+1610"--Page 2 of cover.

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