dollar Mount Klappan anthra-

- cite coal project in the remote’

Spatsizi plateau area 300

kilometers north of Terrace.

In an interview Friday, Gulf
coal division spokesman Larry
Pituley said the ‘company is

- “yedesigning the slate of prod-

ucts’? they could extract from

‘the mine and have embarked on
a néw feasibility study.

Gulf. was depending heavily
on the Korean home heating

market for sale of the low-ash

coal, used there in the form of
briquettes burned in iron stoves.
Pituley.said they’re still looking
at Korea but.on a much reduced
scale. He said Gulf’s current
marketing efforts are being

directed at European and Cana-

dian heavy industry, particularly

‘titanium smelting plants.

When - asked about Gulf’s

plans for Mount Klappan in
1989, | Pituley said, | “That
~ depends on a number of things I.

can’t really discuss right now.”’
Gulf’s Stage II report for the

mine is currently.in the office of

“.

- the Mines Steering Committee.

In an interview from Victoria
Norm Ringstad, project evalua-
tion coordinator for the
Ministry of Energy, Mines and
Petroleum Resources, told us
the report is ‘‘on the back
burner’, .

The development schedule

-jaid out in the Stage II report is
slipping, Ringstad said. ‘“We're

taking. our readings from Gulf,
and there hasn't been any
change in status’ for several
months... but they’re moving
ahead. Klappan.is by.no means
flaming in the sunset.”
He described the Stage II as a
“very healthy document’’, but
noted that there have been ma-
jor concerns expressed by the

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ay Klappan coal stands still, gold forges ahead _
... Mine regulators barely -
keeping up. with proposals

Gulf Canada appears to be
rethinking its multi-million

public in the Northwest about
increased consultation in plans
for the mine, ‘‘The general

-mood isn’t inherently opposed -
to the project, but people seem

to want the opportunity for
greater input,”’ he said. —

Mount Klappan is-a strip-
mining project, and it is located
in an environmentally sensitive
area on the southwest margin of
the Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness
Park.

~ Gold boom unabated

_ While Gulf searches for.
markets that will buy its coal,

the search for precious metals

‘continues with unflagging vigor

in the remote mountains of

—BC., particularly those of the

Northwest. Ringstad ‘said: the
Mines Steering Committee: is

chard pressed to keep up with

development proposals’ that
keep rolling in: last year they ex-
amined 27 plans for mines, but
to date in 1988 they’ve had 35,
and he expects a total of 40 by
year’s end, most of them for
gold and silver discoveries.
‘Skyline’s Johnny Mountain is
now in production, with ex-
ploration. continuing on the
property, In the latter stages of
development.are the Cominco-
Delaware SNIP. project, North
American Metals’ Golden Bear
find near Dease . Lake, . the
Newhawk-Granduc Sulpherets
by Stewart and, nearby,
Westmin’s Silbak Premier mine.

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