Greeley-based Mineral Resources Inc. has agreed to pay more than $200,000 to resolve allegations that it extracted federally owned minerals in Weld County without the necessary permits and leases from the government.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Colorado announced on Wednesday that the company didn’t obtain a permit from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management before it drilled for oil and gas in a railroad right-of-way north of Greeley in 2012, where the underground deposits were owned by the federal government.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said while investigators launched a mineral trespass investigation against Mineral Resources, they didn’t determine that the trespass “was willful.”
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It didn’t provide further details of how Mineral Resources ended up drilling in that area.
The company agreed to pay the government $214,706 to resolve the case.
