Twin Pines Minerals, LLC

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division offers public announcements regarding Twin Pines Minerals, LLC. The information will be posted on this webpage.

• Twin Pines Minerals Permitting Update, June 7, 2022

On June 3, 2022, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) announced that it had concluded that Twin Pines could not rely on the jurisdictional determinations issued in 2020 and 2021 for proposed demonstration mine in Charlton County.  Please see the Twin Pines Minerals Permitting Update for more information about the impact of this conclusion by the Corps on EPD’s permit review.

• Twin Pines Minerals, LLC Response May 25, 2022
• EPD Twin Pines Minerals February 23, 2022 Meeting Minutes
• Twin Pines Minerals, LLC Response February 7, 2022
• EPD Permit Coordination Comments December 7, 2021
• Twin Pines Minerals, LLC Response November 19, 2021
• EPD Permit Coordination Comments October 20, 2021
• Twin Pines Minerals, LLC Response September 17, 2021
• EPD Permit Coordination Letter, September 10, 2021
• Additions and Revisions July 16, 2021
• Twin Pines Minerals, LLC Response June 25, 2021
• EPD Permit Coordination Letter, April 20, 2021
• Twin Pines Minerals, LLC Permitting Fact Sheet , February 8, 2021

Additionally, the project must obtain permits from the Watershed Protection Branch and the Air Protection Branch.  All of the NPDES permit applications (including for construction stormwater) may be viewed under the name “Saunders Mine” in the Georgia EPD Online System (GEOS) for Permitting, Compliance and Facility Information here: 

https://geos.epd.georgia.gov/GA/GEOS/Public/GovEnt/Shared/Pages/Main/Login.aspx 

Groundwater Withdrawal and Air Permit Applications may be viewed below. 

• Groundwater Withdrawal Permit Application submitted on December 9, 2020
• Air Permit Application submitted on December 23, 2019