Registration Number: 2272

Strange Lake Rare Earth Mining Project

Proponent: Torngat Metals Ltd.

Summary of Environmental Assessment Process

Project Description:

The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Nunatsiavut Government (the three Authorities) are each required to conduct an environmental assessment of the above noted project. The three Authorities are working together to avoid duplication in the environmental assessment, and each Authority will make a decision on the undertaking.

The Proponent is proposing the construction, operation and closure of an open-pit rare earth mine, located in Quebec, approximately 235 kilometers northeast of Schefferville.  The proponent plans to build a 160-kilometre seasonal road from the mine site in Quebec to an existing port at Vale’s nickel-copper mine in Anaktalak Bay on the northeast coast of Labrador, with approximately 140 kilometres of the road to be located in northern Labrador. The ore concentrate would be transported by road from the mine site to a new container storage and handling facility at Vale’s port, and then by ship to a rare earth processing and separation plant to be built in an existing industrial port in Sept-Îles, Quebec.

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