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South 32 updates Hermosa project timeline, monitoring and community commitments
Summary
Pat Reisner of South 32 provided a quarterly update to Santa Cruz County supervisors on construction progress, baseline water and air monitoring, voluntary well protection agreements and workforce training plans tied to a new workforce center in Nogales.
Pat Reisner, president of South 32 Hermosa Inc., told the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors that company construction is about 40% complete and that one Department of Defense-funded decline to access a manganese deposit is 67% complete. He said the company has not decided whether it will mine the manganese deposit and that any such decision depends on how the battery-technology market develops.
Reisner described voluntary baseline monitoring the company began in 2020–2021, saying South 32 has two to three years of private well baseline data within a five-mile radius of the project and an extensive network of vibrating-wire piezometers that provide real-time aquifer pressure and water-level readings. He said the company is offering voluntary “well…
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