Group’s $60 million land purchase spares Okefenokee from impact of titanium mining

Land deal protects Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge from mine - The Wildlife Society

After six years of controversy, the Conservation Fund ensures the Okefenokee Swamp is safe from mining—for now

Purchase of mining company’s land hailed as preventing Okefenokee threat

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 national wilderness that is home to several endangered and threatened species.

Group’s $60 million land purchase spares Okefenokee from impact of titanium mining

By T.S. Carter | GEORGIA —The Conservation Fund, a national land preservation organization, says the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge has gained a new lease on life with an Alabama company’s termination of plans to dig a titanium mine near the Okefenokee. Persuading Twin Pines MineralsLLC not to dig adeep earth mine on Trail Ridge cost The Conservation Fund $60 million. The preservation was worth the steep price, the nonprofit organization sa…