The CuMo Exploration Project aims to search for minerals that could lead to a mine years later in mountains outside Boise. (Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun) Mining has played an important role in ...

SODA SPRINGS — A local man was fatally crushed in an accident at a former phosphate mine northeast of Soda Springs. Frank Julian Johnson, 55, of Chubbuck, died during the incident at the Rasmussen ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial photo over the Idaho communities that surround the CuMo Exploration Project, nestled between mountains outside Boise.

United States Antimony (NYSE-A: UAMY) and Americas Gold and Silver (TSX: USA; NYSE-A: USAS) are joining forces to build a hydromet processing plant in Idaho that they see anchoring a domestic supply ...

The Australian owner of a cobalt mine in Central Idaho plans more extensive study of cobalt at a remote site in the Salmon River Mountains, and the potential for a cobalt refinery, after securing $15 ...

Tucked away in the mountains near Challis is an abandoned mining town surrounded by cozy campsites, rugged hikes, and epic ...

Idaho’s Cobalt Belt is a 34-mile-long desirable stretch of ore tucked under the Salmon River Mountains that’s considered “globally significant” by mining companies. And miners are interested in that ...

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 ...

A federal judge has yanked approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho, saying federal land managers in the Trump administration didn’t in part properly consider the mine’s impact on ...

Originally published Aug. 30 on IdahpCapitalSun.com.YELLOW PINE, Idaho — A gold mining company has begun the initial cleanup of a historic mine site in the Central Idaho mountains where it hopes to ...

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 ...