An underground Ajax? Don’t even think about it
KAMLOOPS — I admire Coun. Donovan Cavers’ open mind but I find his willingness to consider even for a moment another Ajax application simply shocking.
Cavers, who was a steadfast opponent of Ajax right from the start, now says if a proposal was submitted for an underground mine instead of an open-pit mine on the site, he might not reject it out of hand.
He should. The Ajax proposal put Kamloops and the entire Thompson-Nicola through six years of conflict and fear. Theoretically, the company could appeal the government’s decision rejecting it, or submit a whole new application.
Cavers told me this week he doubts an underground mine would be feasible on the Ajax property, but the fact is we don’t know for sure. The New Gold mine 10 km. west of downtown Kamloops began life as the Afton open-pit copper mine.