In 2019, Twin Pines Minerals, an Alabama-based mining company, applied for a permit to begin mining titanium dioxide, a whitening pigment, adjacent to South Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp.
However, the mining plan was met with backlash. Scientists and environmental advocates say it would threaten the wildlife refuge’s ecosystem. Over the past six years, there’s been ongoing attempts to stop the project from moving forward.
But on June 20, an unexpected announcement: Twin Pines Minerals sold its land to the Conservation Fund, a nonprofit organization.
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