US EditionConservation group makes $60M land deal to end mining threat outside Okefenokee Swamp
GEORGIA, JUN 20 – The $60 million purchase ends a six-year mining dispute and protects over 7,700 acres near the Okefenokee Swamp, which attracts nearly 800,000 visitors annually, officials said.
- The Conservation Fund purchased the 7,700 acres of land from Twin Pines Minerals near the Okefenokee Swamp on Friday 2024, halting planned mining operations.
- Twin Pines had proposed mining titanium dioxide since 2018 but faced growing opposition and stalled due to financial and legal challenges.
- The deal followed three years of difficult negotiations and was supported by advocacy from environmental groups and hundreds of thousands of concerned Georgians.
- A 2024 report found over 800,000 annual visitors spend $91.5 million locally, while U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff called protecting the swamp "great news for all Georgians."
- The purchase ends the mining threat to the ecological and economic value of the Okefenokee but leaves some adjacent vulnerable lands still at risk of development.
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Conservation group to pay $60 million to stop Alabama mining company project in Georgia
A conservation group said Friday it has reached a $60 million deal to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that environmentalists spent years battling over a proposed mine that opponents feared could irreparably damage an ecological treasure.
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After years of trying, environmentalists neutralize a mining threat near Okefenokee
ATLANTA — The Alabama company that planned to mine titanium dioxide next to the Okefenokee Swamp has agreed to sell its property to an environmental fund, ending — for now — a threat to more than 350,000 acres of designated…
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