Permitting Update: Kentucky

Carroll Fiscal Court on Tuesday approved the sale of its Ohio River mineral rights — permission to dredge the county’s portion of the river bottom for sand and gravel — to Nugent Sand Company. Nugent President Tom Nugent, Vice President of Operations Damon Hughes, Operations Manager Clay Ferris and attorney Ruth Baxter were at the court’s regular meeting on Tuesday…

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New Life for Eagle Mountain?

March 22, 2023 – Exactly what is Ecology Mountain Holding, the company that bought “mineral rights” in the ghost town of Eagle Mountain, Calif., from Eagle Mountain Acquisition LLC for approximately $22.5 million? A “for sale” sign at the town’s entrance promising rock products and minerals begs some rather large questions. Is the former Kaiser Steel mining town about to get new life?…

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