The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality filed a motion on March 25 to pause legal proceedings so it can revise the ...

It’s not the first time the mine was proposed — or faced pushback. According to previous Statesman reporting, this was the ...

The Birch Creek Valley, located in central east Idaho, was once a bustling mining area and the home of Viola Mine in the ...

The investment, said Teck, secures high-quality, cost-competitive shipments of zinc and lead concentrates from the Bunker Hill mine located in Idaho’s Silver Valley. Discovered in 1885 ...

MCCALL, Idaho— Local and national conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today to challenge its approval of the Stibnite Gold Project, an open-pit cyanide leach gold mine in Idaho’s Salmon ...

The U.S. Forest Service last week issued its final approval of a mining project near Boise that opponents say could threaten water and wildlife. On Thursday, a cadre of Idaho environmental groups ...

BNKR-X, which is redeveloping a shuttered mine near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The Bunker Hill mine will produce zinc and lead concentrate, silver and trace amounts of the critical minerals germanium ...

The U.S. Forest Service authorized Idaho Copper Corporation to construct up to eight miles of new roads and clear 122 drill ...

That optimism met a roadblock when the state of Montana tried to label Hecla’s former CEO, Phillips S. Baker, a “bad actor” ...

The bill, proposed by the Idaho Mining Association, would eliminate the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) administrative rules related to cyanidation and move them into statute ...