Agency Milestone Date of 07/06/2022 for Issuance of final UIC permit decision has passed by 1 business days
PROJECT WEBSITE: Lisbon Valley Mining Company Plan Modification
All dates below are specific to the schedule of the Environmental Review and Permitting processes for this project.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND PERMITTING STATUS
IN PROGRESS
ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND PERMITTING
06/29/2026
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND PERMITTING PROCESSES
COMPLETED
SECTOR
Mining
CATEGORY
Project Category
FAST-41 Transparency Projects
LEAD AGENCY
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Other Agencies with Actions or Authorizations:
Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service
Environmental Protection Agency
Description:
Lisbon Valley Mining Company, LLC (LVMC) currently mines copper ore from an open pit mine on 4,480 acres in San Juan County, Utah. LVMC submitted a Plan of Operations Modification to the Bureau of Land Management to expand open pit and beneficiation operations, and to initiate the extraction of copper through a method of in-situ recover into an adjoining area. Additions would include a new open pit, waste rock storage area, process ponds, and in-situ recovery wells in a proposed 5,430 acres. Estimated surface disturbance contained in the Plan of Operations Modification is 1,190 acres. In addition to BLM’s analysis, the project would also require a pending aquifer exemption from the Environmental Protection Agency to allow fluids to be injected underground for the in-situ recovery process.
This project is posted in the interest of transparency and response to Executive Order 14241.