Hot Creek possible strip mine across from the hatchery.

[tcorfey]

There is a Canadian company, Kore Mining, that wants to start exploratory drilling for a strip mine, it is located across the river from Hot Creek Ranch and the hatchery. Current plans are to drill multiple core holes at several locations in this area to determine the viability of the site. If cores prove productive there is plans to do shallow strip mining and use cyanide to leech out the gold. While this areas has severely been affected by the drought they plan to use a lot of water and tailing ponds in a highly volcanic area. Does not sound smart to me.

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Colleen Garcia
Inyo National Forest All Units
351 Pacu Lane Suite 200, Bishop, CA, 93514
colleenggarcia@fs.fed.us

Here is a photo from Google of what the area near the creek looks like now


Typical open pit leech mines currently operating in Canada (source Mining.com)



Proposed site from the Kore mining company documents

Same area as seen from google maps


Link to Kore's website
https://koremining.com/projects/long-valley/overview/
Link to USFS website
https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?pro...4&exp=location
Link to Friends of Inyo website (opposing the project)
https://friendsoftheinyo.org/long-valley-mining/
Link to CalTrout website (opposing the project)
https://caltrout.org/news/trout-clou...op-kore-mining
Link to Trout Unlimited letter (opposed)
https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploa....2021_Final.pdf
Link to Sierra club (opposing the project)
https://www.sierraclub.org/toiyabe/r...ling-hot-creek
Other links
https://www.mining.com/exploration-s...ing-in-canada/
https://www.mammothtimes.com/news/f....4fbbeb6c9.html
https://spotlightmining.com/blog/cal...n-to-the-kore/

I signed a petition opposing this today. Will also be sending a letter.

Tim C.