Wilton, chief executive officer of First Mining Gold, said in an interview that a recently completed environmental impact statement should clear the path for construction to start in 2027.
Construction of the open-pit mine approximately 110 kilometres northeast of Red Lake could be done 2.5 years after it starts, he said.
The environmental impact statement is “the culmination of about 14 years of environmental study and work on this project,” Wilton told Newswatch.
The document is thousands of pages long and “covers really all aspects of the potential environmental impacts of the project,” he said, before adding there’s “still a lot of important work to do.”
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