American Tungsten buys Dutch Mountain mill in Tooele County
With the agreements, AT&A obtains the only fully permitted, operationally tungsten processing facility in Utah’s Clifton (Gold Hill) Mining district as well as the Fraction Lode mine, America’s last active tungsten-producing mine.
“Developing a new mill on federal land typically triggers the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), resulting in extended permitting timelines,” said Andre Booyzen, AT&A’s managing director. “In the race for critical minerals, time is the most valuable asset. With this acquisition of the Dutch Mountain Project, we also acquire a fully permitted processing facility on private land that operated as recently as 2017. We believe this will help reduce our development timeline from regulatory delays that have constrained many U.S. mining projects.”
“Critically, the mill removes a longstanding bottleneck in the Clifton Mining District, where numerous high-grade historical mines remain undeveloped under fragmented private ownership due to insufficient permitted processing capacity,” he added.
Booyzen also said that the company continues to be encouraged by initial drilling results at Antimony Canyon, the company’s flagship project.
AT&A’s flagship Antimony Canyon Project is one of the country’s largest and highest-grade undeveloped antimony systems, historically mined but never subjected to modern exploration. The recently secured Sage Hen and Dutch Mountain Tungsten projects in Nevada and Utah further strengthen the company’s position in critical minerals, he said.
AT&A is located in Subiaco, Western Australia, and is focused on exploring and developing high-grade antimony, tungsten and gold assets, primarily in the United States. In addition to the newly acquired Nevada and Utah locations and Antimony Canyon Project in Utah, the company has properties in Tennessee and central Idaho.