As part of the settlement, Bunker Hill Mining Corp. will pay EPA up to $20 million, on behalf of Placer Mining, in satisfaction of EPA's past costs claim against Placer Mining, and Placer Mining ...

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) in a November 20th Opinion addressed an issue involving the applicability of the Section 402 Clean Water Act National ...

Green River Gold Corp. ("the Company") has commenced mining operations on one of its 100% owned, fully permitted claims on the Swift River. The commencement of revenue generation from this mining ...

OROFINO, Idaho (AP) — Fishing, camping and the protection of American Indian artifacts along a northern Idaho river outweigh the desire of placer miners to search for gold, an attorney representing ...

Plans are being made to expand production further in future and to add additional placer mining operations to provide additional cash flow to the Company Edmonton, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - August 20 ...

The practice has been controversial because of noise and concerns about harm to fish habitat and water quality. Suction dredge, or placer mining, is a kind of motorized in-stream mineral extraction.

In Idaho, a law meant to boost mining actually allows for its end as recreation transforms the West’s economy. Reckoning with History is an ongoing series that seeks to understand the legacies of the ...