The Liberian authorities stated China Union had requested a short lived reprieve following the shut down and dedicated to adhering to relevant legal guidelines.
It stated the EPA had conditionally permitted the corporate to function for the following three months whereas it regularises its standing.
China Union took over the Bong Mines, situated round 150 km (94 miles) northeast of the capital Monrovia, with a $2.6 billion funding in 2008.
It made its first cargo of iron ore in 2014.
On Aug. 28, the EPA stated it shut down Bong Mines for working with out an effluent discharge licence, constructing a processing plant and not using a allow and discharging tailings right into a wetland.
Iron is ample in Liberia however the sector was decimated by a long time of under-investment. Manufacturing on the Bong Mines stopped throughout Liberia’s 1989-2003 civil struggle.
(By James Harding Giahyue and Portia Crowe; Modifying by Leslie Adler and Sandra Maler)