REG-Anglesey Mining Plc: Submission of Parys Mountain Mine Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Report

Anglesey MiningAnnouncement

16/08/2024 07:15

 

 

Trading Symbol

AIM: AYM

 

16 August 2024

 

Anglesey Mining plc

(“Anglesey” or “the Company”)

 

Submission of Parys Mountain Mine

Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Report

 

Anglesey Mining plc (AIM:AYM), is pleased to announce that it has reached an
important project milestone with the formal submission on 31st July 2024 of
the Parys Mountain Mine Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Scoping Report
to the North Wales Minerals and Waste Planning Service (the “Planning
Service”) as part of a formal EIA Scoping Opinion request. The Planning
Service assesses mineral planning applications on behalf of the Isle of
Anglesey County Council and other County Councils within the North Wales
Region.  

 

The Scoping Report forms part of the first stage in the EIA process and comes
after almost two years of extensive studies and work by the Anglesey team on
site. Cumulative expenditure on the EIA process in that timeframe is almost
£300,000. The scoping report sets out the project’s perceived impacts,
specifically identifying any crucial and significant impacts which will be
assessed as part of the final EIA report, the compilation of which will
require further environmental and ecological work. At this EIA scoping stage,
the project description remains indicative and will be refined following
ongoing mining engineering studies, economic analysis and discussions with
neighbours, the wider community and other stakeholders. The mining at Parys
will be carried out by underground methods; there are no plans for an open pit
or opencast mine extraction works.

 

The Scoping Opinion request will now be validated by the Planning Service and
when that process is completed it will be placed on the Anglesey Council
Planning Public Register.  At that time, Anglesey Mining will publish a
further RNS release providing information on how interested parties can view
and comment on the report.

 

Anglesey’s C.E.O. Rob Marsden participated in a monitoring visit and meeting
on site at Parys Mountain on 13th August 2024 with the Senior Minerals and
Waste Planning Officer under the ‘The Town and Country Planning (Fees for
Applications and Deemed Applications) (Wales) (Amendments) Regulations 2020,
which mineral planning authorities utilise to monitor mineral sites and their
extant planning permissions. A brief overview of Anglesey’s new proposal was
also discussed at the above meeting.

 

The Anglesey team are committed to close collaboration with stakeholders,
communities, industry and supply chain participants, particularly around
minimising potential environmental impacts and maximising economic development
opportunities for local communities.

 

 

Preservation of existing heritage areas, sites of special scientific interest
(SSSI’s) and scheduled historic monuments and buildings have been a major
factor in Anglesey determining the location of new proposed surface
infrastructure, and similarly, other environmental and social considerations.
The EIA Scoping Report considers how measures to avoid, mitigate or compensate
would be identified to address the impacts of the project.

 

Copper, zinc, silver and lead are essential metals that will be required for,
amongst other uses, the transition of the UK’s energy use and distribution
towards electricity and away from fossil fuels.  To produce these minerals
from the Parys Mountain mine, new surface infrastructure will be required,
including a tailings management facility, a decline portal and some small
ventilation shaft collars. The proposed approximate locations of such surface
features are shown in a drawing and are described in the EIA Scoping report. 
The details may change as the Environmental Impact Assessment process
proceeds.  Anglesey has decided to submit a fresh planning application,
rather than alter the existing one, for several reasons that are outlined in
the EIA Scoping Report.  This is partly because additional mineral resources
have been identified recently during a campaign of exploration drilling and
because Anglesey intends to avoid any potential damage to heritage and
biodiversity assets that have been designated since the last mineral
permission.  Finally, technological changes since the original planning
permission offer more efficient methods of mining, ore processing, pollution
control and tailings storage. 

 

Rob Marsden, CEO of Anglesey Mining, commented: “The submission of the
Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Report for the Parys Mountain Project
is a very significant milestone for Anglesey. The assessment of the
environmental and social impacts of mining of copper, zinc, lead, silver and
gold from Parys Mountain, in addition to the economic feasibility, will play a
major part in the permitting processes required to progress the project
through investment and financing to mineral production.”

“It is worth reminding investors that Parys Mountain is demonstrably the
largest and most advanced copper/zinc/lead/silver/gold project in the UK with
a substantial resource upside. In addition, the project is favourably located
on a previously permitted, development site with significant existing
infrastructure already in place.“

 

About Anglesey Mining plc:

 

Anglesey Mining is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and
currently has 461,593,017 ordinary shares in issue.

 

Anglesey is developing the 100% owned Parys Mountain Cu-Zn-Pb-Ag-Au VMS
deposit in North Wales, UK with a reported resource of 5.3 million tonnes at
over 4.0% combined base metals in the Measured and Indicated categories and
10.8 million tonnes at over 2.5% combined base metals in the Inferred
category. 

Anglesey also holds a 49.75% interest in the Grängesberg iron ore project in
Sweden and 12% of Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited, which through its 52%
owned subsidiaries, is engaged in the exploration and development of direct
shipping iron ore deposits in Labrador and Quebec.

 

For further information, please contact:

Anglesey Mining plc

Rob Marsden, Chief Executive Officer – Tel: +44 (0)7531 475111

Andrew King, Interim-Chairman – Tel: +44 (0)7825 963700

 

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Nominated Adviser & Joint Corporate Broker

Brian Garrahy / Daragh O’Reilly – Tel: +353 1 679 6363

 

Zeus Capital Limited

Joint Corporate Broker

Katy Mitchell / Harry Ansell – Tel: +44 (0)161 831 1512

 

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