Magris Talc Canada Inc. - Environmental Compliance Approval (air)

This proposal is for the renewal of the Limited Operational Flexibility for an Environmental Compliance Approval (air) No. 1136-9TMQXJ for Magris Talc Canada Inc., an open pit talc mining and concentrating facility located in the Unorganized Township of Reeves and Unorganized Township of Penhorwood, Ontario.

The emission sources from the manufacturing and associated processes that discharge to the air include baghouses; drilling, blasting and material handling of talc ore and waste rock materials; material handling, crushing and screening operations; concentrating; and auxiliary support operations such as maintenance welding, heating and emergency power.

Emissions to the air from this facility include:

• chromium (VI)
• magnesium carbonate
• methyl isobutyl carbinol
• nickel
• nitrogen oxides, and
• particulate matter

The Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (air), when issued, permits modifications to the facility subject to limits on operational flexibility that include a production limit for the facility to be specified on the Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (air). The Limited Operational Flexibility conditions have an expiry date. The company will be required to make an application for amendment at that time to renew these conditions.