(ff) Mining Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries apply a quality assurance program and quality control measures (collectively, the “QA/QC”) to provide reasonable assurance regarding the precision and accuracy of its assay data. The Company is not aware of any material weaknesses in the QA/QC and maintains security measures that are designed to provide assurance in the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ sample preparation, sample dispatches, sample security, sample splitting and reduction, data verification, and testing, assaying and analytical procedures.
(gg) Environmental Laws. Except as disclosed in the Offering Documents or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus (i) with respect to the Material Properties, the Company and its Subsidiaries are not in material violation of any federal, provincial, state, local, municipal or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum products (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, discharge, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”); (ii) with respect to the Material Properties, there are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings relating to any Environmental Laws against the Company or any Subsidiary; (iii) the Company and its Subsidiaries have all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws and are each in material compliance with their requirements under such Environmental Laws; and (iv) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is subject to any contingent or other liability relating to the restoration or rehabilitation of land, water or any other part of the environment (except for those derived from normal exploration or mining activities) or noncompliance with Environmental Laws.
(hh) Environmental Audits. There are no material environmental audits, evaluations, assessments, studies or tests relating to the Company except for ongoing assessments conducted by or on behalf of the Company or a Subsidiary in the ordinary course.
(ii) Costs and Liabilities related to Compliance with Environmental Laws. In the ordinary course of its business, the Company periodically reviews the effect of Environmental Laws on the business, operations and properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in the course of which it identifies and evaluates associated costs and liabilities (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure or remediation of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws, or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties), and on the basis of such review, the Company has reasonably concluded that such associated costs and liabilities would not, subject to maintaining adequate reserves for such costs, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
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