Mines

The U.S. Forest Service wants the company hoping to re-open the Stibnite Mine for more information on possible environmental impacts of its latest plan. That means Perpetua Resources will have to wait until at least 2023 for a decision on its permit. We look back at the site's complex history and uncertain future here in Idaho.

A new government watchdog report published Wednesday says taxpayers are shouldering the burden of cleaning up the nation’s thousands of abandoned hardrock…

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has released a five-year report on the status of an abandoned mine near Triumph, an unincorporated…

Tundra swans are dying along the Coeur d’Alene River floodplain. But this isn't a new problem.It happens every spring, and this year is no different. An…

The Bureau of Land Management has closed off a mine shaft that collapsed in Silver City.The shaft opened up without warning in the old mining town, which…