Great Bear Resources Ltd. - Environmental Compliance Approval (sewage)

The proposal is for a new Environmental Compliance Approval for Great Bear Resources Ltd. for industrial sewage treatment works serving the Great Bear Advanced Exploration Project, located at Tuzyks Road, approximately 25 kilometres southeast of the Town of Red Lake.

Great Bear Resources Ltd. is proposing to undertake an advanced exploration program (AEX Program) in order to obtain additional information on known mineralized zones and to extract a bulk ore sample of up to 60,000 tonnes by underground mining methods. Extraction of bulk sample will allow for the testing of representative areas of the mineralization, continuity, mining dilution, optical sorter performance and metallurgical recoveries. The underground development and ore extraction will employ conventional drilling and blasting using explosives. No open pit mining or milling of ore will occur on site during the AEX Program and no tailings will be generated or stored as part of the AEX Program.

Dewatering water from the underground, contact water (surface runoff and seepage) from the stockpiles, and surface water that comes into contact with the main AEX Program site will be collected and managed for industrial re-use (e.g., drilling water) or discharged to the receiving environment after treatment, as applicable.

This application is for industrial sewage treatment works comprising of contact water collection ponds and an Effluent Treatment Plant. The proposed works are designed to meet Effluent Quality requirements prior to discharge to the Chukuni River via the Chukuni River Discharge Pipeline and diffuser.

The Ministry may require monitoring of the industrial wastewater effluent discharge leaving the site.