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The resumption of the approval process comes even as players raise concerns over snail’s pace of the process.

The Georgia House of Representatives is expected to vote Tuesday on a bill declaring a three-year moratorium on acceptance of applications for dragline surface mining permits of heavy sands minerals

As a proposed mine on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge nears final approval, Georgia lawmakers are considering a three-year pause on future permits to allow expansion of the mining project. The bill by Rep. John Corbett, a Republican from Lake Park whose district includes the swamp, would prohibit until July 1, 2027, any new permit applications in Georgia for the type of mining Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals plans to use to extract titanium dioxide just outside the federally protected swamp. Corbett's measure would not affect the draft permits Twin Pines ...

The interim order was passed on a PIL by NGO Vanashakti which has challenged the move to allow mining projects without first obtaining environmental clearances under the EIA notification, 2006.

Shift to non-traditional mining locations required to give investors the high returns they expect, he says