The proposed project would be located in the Pancake Mountain Range, approximately 50 miles west of Ely, 30 miles southeast of Eureka, and 15 miles south of U.S. Highway 50. The proposed project is an open-pit gold mine that would include an open pit; a heap leach pad and associated ponds, process facility, and refinery; a mill; a carbon-in-leach plant; waste rock disposal areas; a tailings storage facility; ancillary facilities; and a 69-kilovolt transmission line to serve the project which would be supplied by Mount Wheeler Power on a new BLM Right-of-Way ... Construction and operation of the mine would result in 3,946 acres of disturbance that includes the previously authorized exploration disturbance of 267 acres.