Investors Push Chemours to Avoid Mining Near Okefenokee (1)

The Chemours Co. should commit to avoid buying a company that plans to mine titanium dioxide on the edge of North America’s largest blackwater swamp, according to a Wednesday letter from 20 investors representing $700 billion in assets under management.

Georgia regulators in the coming months are expected make a final decision about whether to permit Twin Pines Minerals LLC to build its titanium dioxide mine on a ridge that hems in Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Georgia. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which operates the refuge, says the mine will eventually drain the swamp.

Chemours is the ...