On this day in Santa Clarita history, March 20, 2019, Cemex lost its federal appeal, marking the end of a decades-long battle over a proposed mega-mine in Soledad Canyon. A U.S. Department of the Interior review board denied Cemex Inc.’s appeal of a 2015 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decision that canceled the company’s mining contracts in Soledad Canyon. The ...

The decades-long battle to ensure that mega-mining never occurs in the Santa Clarita Valley could over, as CEMEX’s second 10-year mining contract officially expires on July 31, officials said. The decades-long battle to ensure that mega-mining never occurs in the Santa Clarita Valley could be over, as CEMEX’s second 10-year mining contract officially expires on July 31, officials said. CEMEX ...

In what has been a decades-long battle to ensure that mega-mining does not occur in the Santa Clarita Valley, on April 24, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a formal notice to CEMEX regarding the outstanding amount of $6.3 million owed to BLM, officials said Tuesday. This amount is for CEMEX’s first 10-year contract, which expired in July 2010. ...

Officials with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ruled Friday that the CEMEX Corporation must pay over $25 million to the bureau within 30 days, or else their contract to mine in Soledad Canyon is set to be “terminated,” officials said. In a pair of decisions addressed to CEMEX, Inc. on Friday, the BLM states that for each of the ...