Q our character. But for some people, mining can bring up, uh, you know, conjure up images of environmental destruction and poor labor practices and communities, tribal communities specifically, that have been Left behind. And the Hermosa project is described as this next generation responsible mining project that takes a lot of these factors into direct consideration. So can we talk about responsible mining and what we mean by that term?
A Yeah. I think where I probably should start is I talked about our purpose. Sustainability is at the heart of that because we have to do it right. We, our approach to Hermosa is think about treating natural resources in the environment with care, being responsible stewards, and doing things differently, innovating and using technology and new approaches, bringing different approaches together to address what have been some of the typical sustainability challenges that In the past, and there's a lot we can do differently as an industry. The way we think about that is minimizing impact on all environmental resources, finding ways to add enduring environmental value. So we have thought about that at Hermosa in a few ways. One is, how do we minimize impact on surface environmental resources? A lot of historic mining operations you see cover vast swaths of land, upwards of 10,000 acres, large open pits, big holes in the ground. Large waste dumps, tailings facilities. We have devised, ah, Hermosa, or designed Hermosa as an underground operation. Um, we can mine both the manganese and the zinc resource with less than 600 acres of total disturbance, compared to upwards of 10,000 for many other mining projects. And the vast majority of that disturbance is on private land that was historically mined in the 19th and 20th century. So it's actually not new disturbance. So minimizing surface …
AI assessment note: “less than 600 acres of total disturbance, compared to upwards of 10,000”