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Aquila Resources Announces Organizational Changes
January 26, 2021 GMT
Aquila Resources Inc. (TSX: AQA, OTCQB: AQARF) (“
Aquila ” or the “
Company ”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Guy Le Bel as President & CEO of Aquila, effective February 1, 2021. Barry Hildred will transition to the role of Executive Chair of the Board of Directors. The Board has appointed Ted Munden, outgoing Chair of the Board of Directors, to the position of Lead Director.
“My focus as Executive Chair will be supporting Guy as he drives the Back Forty Project and our exploration projects in Wisconsin through their next phase of development,” said Barry Hildred. “I look forward to working closely with Guy on strategic initiatives, capital raising, and stakeholder relations.”
Permit for Aquila Resources’ Back Forty mine denied
Aquila s flagship Back Forty project is an open pit volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit with underground potential in Michigan. Credit: Aquila Resources
Aquila Resources’ (TSX: AQA; US-OTC: AQARF) proposed gold, zinc and copper mine to go ahead.
The ruling revokes the wetlands permit for the Back Forty project in Lake Township, north of Menominee. It comes after opponents to the project challenged the permit issued in 2018 by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE).
“The ruling raises valid concerns about the potential impacts on groundwater and surface water, including the Lower Menominee River,” department spokesman Hugh McDiarmid Jr. told local media.
Crucial permit for proposed U.P. gold mine nullified by judge
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
STEPHENSON, MI – A proposed Upper Peninsula gold mine is now without a crucial permit as the company continues its nearly two-decade fight to launch the project.
This week, a Michigan judge overturned a key wetlands permit granted by state regulators in 2018, John Flesher reports for The Associated Press. The proposed Back Forty mine, owned by Toronto-based Aquila Resources, would target gold and zinc in an underground sulfide deposit, as well as smaller volumes of copper, silver and lead. The mine site is near the Michigan-Wisconsin border and the Menominee River.
Judge rejects controversial Upper Peninsula mine s wetlands permit
Aquila Resources Inc. proposes to mine for gold, zinc and copper within 150 feet of the Menominee River in the western U.P. on the Michigan-Wisconsin border.
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Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press | 5:08 pm, Jan. 5, 2021 ×
A Stop the Mine sign hangs on a tree that borders the land next to the proposed mine site in the upper peninsula of Michigan along the Menomonee River. (Tom Lynn / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / MCT)
(Tribune News Service) Michigan environmental regulators did not correctly handle a mining company s wetlands permit application for a controversial, open-pit sulfide mine within 150 feet of the Menominee River in the western Upper Peninsula, an administrative law judge ruled Monday as he rejected the permit.
It s another setback for a project that s been debated nearly two decades.
Jan 5th, 2021
This Oct. 20, 2008 file photo shows, one of many signs that have popped up in yards, on trees and along roads in the Lake Township, Mich., section of Menominee County, where the proposed Aquila Resources Inc. mine would be located. Administrative Law Judge Daniel Pulter has overruled state regulators who granted a permit required for construction of the open-pit mine in the Upper Peninsula, in a decision released Monday. Jan. 4, 2021, creating another delay for a project that has been debated for nearly two decades.
AP Photo/John Flesher, File