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On September 26, 2008, EDEN Research, LLC formally submitted application materials to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) for the EDEN Research
Facility to be located in an enclosed building within the Dayton Valley Air Park at 10 Air Park Vista Boulevard, Dayton, NV. This webpage has been developed to help explain NDEP's role in the environmental permitting process for the EDEN Facility.
About the Permitting Process
- NDEP's part in the process of locating EDEN's Research Facility to Dayton is minimal. NDEP is charged with processing a Water Pollution Control permit and an Air Quality Control Permit. Lyon County is the entity charged with approving a zoning and use permit for the facility to operate at this location.
- NDEP's public comment period ended July 31, but we will gather comments from this hearing to include in the permit process. The public is invited to speak about any concerns specifically regarding the issuance of a Water Control Permit at this meeting. Comments about the company or the location will not be included in NDEP's permit process. Read or Print Public Hearing Agenda - Sept. 9, 2009
- EDEN intends to use proprietary technology to extract certain minerals and metals (including gold and silver) from mineralized material (e.g. alluvium and mine wastes) using sodium cyanide, oxidizing and reducing agents, proprietary organic compounds and other chemical reagents. The maximum authorized processing rate is 36,000 tons of ore per year.
- The EDEN facility is authorized to operate as a zero discharge facility. "Zero discharge" means the standard of performance for the protection of surface waters which requires the containment of all process fluids.
- Ore will be transported to EDEN by truck and all beneficiation and chemical processing will take place in an enclosed building with containment. Facilities are required to be designed, constructed, operated and closed without any discharge or release in excess of those standards established in regulation.
- EDEN is authorized to only process ore obtained from facilities currently permitted and authorized by NDEP.
- For ore feed material from in-state sources currently not permitted by NDEP, and for out of state sources, EDEN must submit to NDEP appropriate application materials and fees for either a separate site-specific Permit for the ore source or incorporation of the ore source into this Permit as a Major Modification.
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