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Jonathon Naylor Editor Foran Mining Corp. announced Tuesday it has awarded contracts for environmental and engineering studies at its potential McIlvenna Bay mine outside Flin Flon. The junior miner said an agreement has been signed with ASKI Resource Management and Environmental Services Inc. to provide project management for the collection of environmental baseline data at the property. At the same time, Foran has executed an agreement with Golder Associates Ltd. to provide geotechnical and geochemical consulting services. Golder will also aide in implementing a geotechnical data collection program to begin to build a geotechnical database for the project. "The awarding of contracts and the commencement of environmental and engineering studies at McIlvenna Bay is an important step in the advancement of McIlvenna Bay," said Patrick Soares, president and CEO of Foran, "as we move towards our goal of building and operating a world-class mine." Framework The Vancouver-based Foran said work is now underway to prepare a regulatory framework for the permitting of development at McIlvenna Bay. This will be followed by the formulation of a baseline data acquisition strategy, which is where ASKI Ð an environmental consulting group owned by the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation Ð comes in. Foran said ASKI's consultants have successfully implemented environmental studies for a number of commodities, including base metals, throughout Saskatchewan. In addition to consulting and data collection, Golder will contrive and implement a preliminary program to collect samples of mineralized and non-mineralized material for initial geochemical characterization of McIlvenna Bay's deposit and host rocks. Foran said this data is being collected with the goal of assisting in future mine design planning and waste management proposals for the permitting and development of the project. This engineering work is expected to commence next month. McIlvenna Bay is a volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit located in east-central Saskatchewan, 60 km west of Flin Flon. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its regulation services provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of information supplied by Foran.
