Registration Number: 1690

Labrador West Beneficiation Plant

Proponent: Labrador Iron Mines Ltd.

Summary of Environmental Assessment Process

Project Description:

The proponent intends to construct and operate an iron ore beneficiation plant to processore from the Houston 1 and 2 Deposits Mining Project in western Labrador. The processinvolves the crushing, screening, washing and magnetic separation of the ore. Processwater will be taken from an abandoned open pit. Reject water and sediment will bedischarged to the same pit. Two 9 -10 kilometre pipelines will be used to transportprocess water from the abandoned pit and to direct reject water back into the pit. Thebeneficiation plant will operate from May through October each year, weather permitting.Construction is scheduled to will take place in June 2014 and production is scheduled tobegin in June or July 2015.

  • February 6, 2013 – The undertaking was registered.
  • March 14, 2013 – Deadline for public comments.
  • March 23, 2013 – The minister’s decision is due.
  • May 9, 2013 – The Minister Announced that the project is released.

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