Around 1860, prospectors came to Idaho to find gold in the Boise Basin. The bet was solid, and word got out as people came here to stake claims. This Discovery of gold set one of the largest ...

The East Fork of the South Fork of the Salmon River flows through the abandoned Yellow Pine Pit at the Stibnite Mine in Central Idaho. (Clark Corbin/Idaho Capital Sun) The U.S. Forest Service issued a ...

In the face of mounting legal challenges, the corporate backers of a gold and antimony mine in Central Idaho hosted state and federal dignitaries Friday at the remote site to celebrate recent ...

A state environmental board on Thursday withheld an air quality permit issued for a proposed gold and antimony mine near McCall. The Idaho Board of Environmental Quality, a seven-member advisory body ...

The Stibnite Gold Project proposed by Perpetua Resources is an open-pit gold and antimony mine in a remote area of the Payette National Forest near Yellow Pine. After an eight-year environmental ...

The origin of our state’s nickname dates back to the mining boom of the 19th century.

BOISE, Idaho — A historic mining district in central Idaho will soon reopen and become one of the largest gold mines in the United States after it received approval, but it wasn't without controversy.

Drilling across the current Rangefront resource pit is defining new near-surface gold mineralization in areas, which were ...

Figure 2: Location of the Crane Creek project in western Idaho with respect to the Crane Creek Graben, a major extensional fault system which hosts the Nutmeg Mountain epithermal gold deposit and lies ...

The U.S. Forest Service issued a draft record of decision Friday authorizing a gold mining company to resume operations at Stibnite Mine in Central Idaho’s Payette National Forest, a proposal that ...

BOISE — The U.S. Forest Service issued a draft record of decision Friday authorizing a gold mining company to resume operations at Stibnite Mine in Central Idaho’s Payette National Forest, a proposal ...