A KWG drilling operation is carried out at Big Daddy in the fall of 2009.


KWG subsidiary to appeal Cliffs decision

Thursday, August 14, 2014
sud.editorial@sunmedia.ca

KWG Resources Inc. subsidiary Canada Chrome Corporation has served notice it will appeal a decision that granted Cliffs Natural Resources an easement over claims Canada Chrome had staked.

The Divisional Court of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled July 30 that CCC's consent should be waived in an application for an easement to build a road over its mining claims.

The Ontario Divisional Court set aside a decision reached by the Ontario Mining and Lands Commissioner in September 2013 that denied Cliffs an easement for a road to reach its Black Thor chromite deposit in the Ring of Fire in northwestern Ontario. 
Cliffs, which has halted exploration on its chromite project, launched the appeal in October. The case was heard in Toronto in June. 
The court's decision means Natural Resources Minister Bill Mauro will decide if Cliffs gets approval for a road into the Ring of Fire.

"Whether or not it is in the public interest to grant an easement for a road is a matter for the minister of Natural Resources to determine, after an environmental assessment and consultation with First Nations and other affected interests," the court ruled in July. "It is for the minister to determine whether the easement should be granted in the public interest and on what terms."

Cliffs wants to stake a 330-kilometre long corridor using mining claims from Nakina north to the exploration camps in the James Bay lowlands. KWG owns those surface rights and through Canada Chrome, wants to use the corridor for a future railroad.

KWG has a 30% interest in the Big Daddy chromite deposit and the right to earn 80% of the Black Horse chromite where resources are being defined. KWG has also acquired interests in provisional patents, including a method for the direct reduction of chromite to metalized iron and chrome using natural gas.

KWG also owns 100% of Canada Chrome Corporation, which has staked claims and conducted a $15 million surveying and soil testing program for the engineering and construction of a railroad to the Ring of Fire from Exton, Ont.


KWG subsidiary to appeal Cliffs decision

Thursday, August 14, 2014
sud.editorial@sunmedia.ca