PROJECT WEBSITE: Bear Lodge Project

All dates below are specific to the schedule of the Environmental Review and Permitting processes for this project.

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SECTOR
Mining

CATEGORY
Project Category FAST-41 Covered Projects

LEAD AGENCY
Department of Agriculture, US Forest Service

Description:

The Bear Lodge Rare Earth Project proposes to utilize the planned Bull Hill Mine, located near the town of Sundance in northeastern Wyoming which is comprised of several disseminated deposits and characterized by a distribution of critical magnet rare earth element (REEs), specifically neodymium-praseodymium (Nd/Pr), and other essential REEs. The Project includes the Bull Hill Mine (pit, ore hauling, waste rock storage, ore stockpile, ore crushing and loading, pit dewatering, and site management), grid supplied power, and access/transportation into and out of federal lands.  

The project encompasses mining a USGS-recognized REE resource at the Bear Lodge deposit on Black Hills National Forest lands that will become feed material for a commercial processing facility that will produce high-purity separated neodymium-praseodymium (Nd/Pr) oxide supplying strategic materials to downstream partners for alloy and permanent magnet manufacturing essential to defense and high-tech industries. The processing facility will be located on private land, approximately 40 miles from the mine area.