Marathon Gold receives federal Fisheries Act authorisation for Valentine Gold project
Published by Joe Toft,
Editorial Assistant
Global Mining Review,
Matt Manson, President and CEO, commented:
"We have previously reported on a number of important provincial permits that we had received to allow our early works program to commence at Valentine, such as our early works certificate of approval, the approval of the early works development and rehabilitation & closure plan, and the approval of the construction environmental protection plan. This latest authorisation under the Fisheries Act is a major permit under federal jurisdiction for the project, and governs the important aspects of water management and the protection of fish and fish habitat. Its receipt is timely, and supports the scheduled site work currently underway. The early works mobilisation at Valentine has gone well, and we are able to report good progress in each work area including temporary camp installation, grubbing and tree removal, pad construction, haul road development, and pre-strip mining for construction materials.”
Specific terms and conditions with which Marathon must comply are laid out in the Fisheries Act authorisation. These include installation and maintenance of sediment and erosion control measures, relocation of fish through capture and release methods, and the implementation of best management practices and standards to avoid and mitigate impacts to fish and fish habitat.
Additionally, avoidance and mitigation measures must be monitored and, if monitoring indicates that these are not successful at avoiding and mitigating impacts to fish and fish habitat, contingency measures must be put in place to prevent impacts greater than those covered by the authorisation. Of note, the Fisheries Act authorisation also includes approval to proceed with a proposed fish habitat offsetting project, which will involve the restoration of salmonid habitat in Victoria River impacted by previous logging activities in the area. Submerged pulpwood in the river will be removed to expose the original substrate, returning the spawning and nursery habitat to its pre-logging condition.
Read the article online at: https://www.globalminingreview.com/mining/25102022/marathon-gold-receives-federal-fisheries-act-authorisation-for-valentine-gold-project/
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