Published: October 3, 2022 |

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Generation Mining’s Joint Review Panel (JRP) established to conduct an environmental assessment of the company’s Marathon Palladium Copper Project near Marathon, Ontario has completed its report. The reports sets out recommendations for the company, and the federal and provincial governments, to mitigate or minimize any adverse effects of the Marathon Project.

The completion of the panel report is a significant milestone in the environmental assessment process. This report has been submitted to the offices of both the Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Ontario Minister of the Environment. The ministerial decisions are expected to follow within 120 days.

“This is a critical step in bringing the Marathon Project into production. We will carefully review the panel’s recommendations and look forward to working with the affected stakeholders to continue advancing the Marathon Project while we await final government decisions,” said Jamie Levy, president and chief executive officer of Gen Mining.

“We acknowledge the diligence with which the panel and participants, in particular Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation and the Indigenous communities, reviewed the environmental and socio-economic impacts of the Marathon Project throughout the JRP process. We look forward to receiving positive decisions from the federal and provincial governments in due course,” added Levy.

Gen PGM is proposing to construct, operate, and decommission an open pit palladium mine approximately 10 km from Marathon, Ontario. The project would include three open pits, an ore processing plant, tailings and mine rock storage facilities, site access roads, a transmission line, explosives facilities, water management structures, ancillary mine infrastructure, and associated activities. The rate of production would be approximately 25,200 tonnes of ore per day with a proposed operating mine life of approximately 12.7 years.

The JRP was composed of three experts appointed by the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Ontario Minister of the Environment based on their knowledge, experience, and expertise related to the environmental assessment of a proposed project. The role of the JRP was to review and assess, in an impartial and objective manner, the proposed project. The JRP for the project reviewed the public record of the project, including the environmental impact statement (EIS 2012), amendments to the EIS, and any supporting documents, such as the updated baseline studies submitted by the proponent. The panel posed extensive technical information requests throughout the process in addition to allowing for numerous opportunities for the public and government officials to express their views throughout the environmental assessment.

About Generation Mining
Gen Mining’s focus is the development of the Marathon Project, a large undeveloped platinum group metal mineral deposit in Northwestern Ontario. The company released the results of the feasibility study on March 3, 2021 and published the NI43-101 Technical Report dated March 25, 2021. The Marathon property covers a land package of approximately 22,000 hectares, or 220 square kilometers.

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