The Yellow Pine Pit open-pit gold mine in the Stibnite Mining District in central Idaho, where a company hopes to start mining again, Sept. 19, 2018. The U.S. Forest Service on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, made public an environmental study for British Columbia-based Perpetua Resources' Stibnite Gold Project about 40 miles east of McCall. (Riley Bunch/The Idaho Press-Tribune via AP, File)
November 1, 2022
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US selects proposed plan for open-pit gold mines in Idaho
The most recent proposal differs from a previous 2016 plan by decreasing the mining footprint by 13%