DEMING – American Magnesium LLC has completed the necessary steps that may bring a dolomite quarry mining operation to Luna County.
The New Mexico Bureau of Land Management, through the United States Department of the Interior, has provided its revised Record of Decision to approve the construction, operation and reclamation of the mining project on public lands south of Deming as analyzed in the Environmental Assessment dated July 2020.
The RoD favored American Magnesium’s Plan of Operation on the project in the foothills of the Florida Mountains, that has been in the making since 2017.
“American Magnesium is extremely pleased with the BLM’s Revised Record of Decision. From approval of the Plan of Operations through the entire NEPA reports. The process was thorough and professionally administered,” said Carol Ness Brewka, Managing Member for AM. “We were also happy to have, in this document, BLM approval of the Reclamation Study and Financial Assurance Bond requiremen
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DEMING – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has told a federal court in New Mexico that it “intends to withdraw” its decision to allow the development of a dolomite mine on public land in the Florida Mountains south of Deming, New Mexico. A Motion for Stay of All Proceedings in Case Number 2:20-cv-00924, filed January 11, 2021, states that a new decision will be issued at some point in 2021, according to the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance.
American Magnesium has sought approval to mine the dolomite, believing it contains magnesium that could be extracted and sold, since early 2017. It originally proposed to transport the dolomite several miles across the city on a conveyor belt to a production facility proposed for the north side of Deming, but later conceded that the rock would need to be transported on trucks, at an estimated 92 daily trips.