Is a gold mine coming to eastern Idaho? Forest Service evaluating local project.
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KILGORE There is a long history of digging up gold in Idaho.
Idaho’s deep calderas have opened the Gem State up to not only the feverish pioneer rush to pan for the gold in the 1800s, but continue to fuel modern-day speculators looking to mine the precious metal.
Canadian-based company, Excellon Resources, and its U.S. subsidiary, Otis Capital USA Corporation, has its eye on about 22 acres of forest land in the Dubois Ranger District in Clark County, about 80 miles north of Idaho Falls located in the heart of the Greater Yellowstone region. The company believes the region holds enough gold to operate an eventual open-pit mine for three up to five years. More specifically, they’d like to build an open pit, heap leach, cyanide gold mine, which were outlawed in neighboring Montana in 1998 due to environmental concerns. This type of mining is legal in Idaho, but with strin