Midas' Stibnite now open for public review
The public will have 60 days to comment on the Stibnite gold project draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Stibnite gold project, in Valley county, Idaho.
The comment period is legally required to be 45 days and the US Forest Service has decided to grant a 15-day extension.
The draft EIS puts owner Midas Gold one step closer to developing the Stibnite project, which in addition to gold and silver will produce tungsten.
“Our company has worked hard for the last decade to design and permit a mining project that could redevelop and restore an abandoned brownfields site and have a positive economic impact on the local community and Idaho in general. We have carefully developed an approach to use the proceeds of mining to restore fish passage and habitat, address numerous legacy environmental impacts and improve water quality in the region,” said Midas Gold CEO Stephen Quin.
The company has faced litigation over claims relating to water impacts owing to historical mining activity prior to Midas’ involvement in the site. The Nez Perce Tribe last year filed legal action in the US District Court of Idaho.
Nevertheless, Midas said that the project had strong support in Idaho.
The company concedes that the mining district was in need of environmental repair and said it had designed Stibnite to integrate responsible, modern mining with the restoration of legacy and new disturbances.
Midas stated that the Stibnite project would produce the only domestically mined source of the critical mineral antimony in the US, invest about $1-billion in construction, provide 500 direct, family wage jobs for Idahoans, as well as numerous indirect jobs in the supply, services and contracting sectors, address numerous legacy mining issues affecting the environment and reconnect migrating salmon to their native spawning grounds for the first time in more than 80 years.
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