New Nadina Explorations Ltd. (TSX-V:NNA) has been given the green light to continue drilling on private property over the objections of an American landowner, who tried to stop work from continuing on his ranch near Houston, B.C.
The BC Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Charles Donald Christmann, who owns the 3,000-acre Mission Outpost Ranch, where New Nadina has overlapping mineral claims.
As detailed last month in Business in Vancouver, New Nadina is a small exploration company taken over by Ellen Clements after her husband, a geologist, died in 2005.
The company believes it has found a copper-molybdenum-gold porphyry in the area, but needs to conduct further drilling on Christmann’s land.
When Christmann objected to that, it went to the B.C. Surface Rights Board, which ruled against him in 2013. Christmann applied for a judicial review of the decision, lost, then appealed to the BC Appeal Court.
“As a result of this decision, New Nadina can now continue its exploration work,” Clements said in a press release.
