Lion One Receives Two Environmental Approvals for Tuvatu

Lion One Metals Ltd. (TSXV:LIO,ASX:LLO,OTCQX:LOMLF) announced that Fiji’s Department of Environment has approved the Construction Environment Management Plan and Operation Environmental Management Plan for its Tuvatu gold project.

As quoted in the press release:

The Construction and Operation EMP’s have been approved for the potential future development of processing plant, construction of roads, underground and open cut mine construction, minesite infrastructure, tailings, pipeline, and water management facilities, and follows extensive consultations with the Mineral Resources Department, Rural Local Authority, Town and Country Planning, Lands Department, Forestry Department, and i-Taukei Land Trust Board, following the approval of the Company’s Environmental Impact Assessment (see announcement dated Feb.11, 2014). The Company is currently conducting a number of additional studies, including two independent processing plant studies, a mine plan and development study, and geotechnical studies for the potential tailings dam facility and the processing plant site for Tuvatu, all of which are expected to conclude by December 2014.

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