As the former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, my job was to protect both public health and the ...

College of Western Idaho wins $862K NSF grant to launch a Mining Technician degree, offering hands-on training and new career ...

It is finally time for the Stibnite Gold Project to deliver for America,” said Jon Cherry, president and CEO of Perpetua Resources mining company.

The law of the land when it comes to mining in the United States is the General Mining Act of 1872, which governs hard -rock mineral exploration and the extraction of minerals on federal lands. Many ...

Perpetua Resources (NASDAQ, TSX: PPTA) has received a notice to proceed from the US Forest Service, authorizing the ...

A hidden Idaho mountain town celebrates its sparkling mining history beneath majestic mountains that yield great exploration ...

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.

An Australian mining company poised to open the only cobalt mine in the U.S. has halted final construction on its Idaho Cobalt Operation west of Salmon, Idaho. Jervois Global announced Wednesday that ...

Rising over the River of No Return that winds through central Idaho’s city of Challis, the dry landscape wrinkles with beige hills, beyond which the Salmon River Mountains mark entry into one of the ...

These ghost towns scatter across sagebrush valleys and pine-clad ridges, each one a snapshot of boom-and-bust fortune that ...

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 ...