Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A company that wants to extract gold from piles of decades-old mining waste outside Leadville no longer plans to use cyanide in its processes after hearing ...
Piles of waste left over from decades of mining surround the town of Leadville, Colorado. Now, the Denver Post reports that a local company wants to use cyanide to extract gold and silver from those ...
The public has until Feb. 6 to comment on the proposed Grassy Mountain Gold and Silver Mine near Vale in Malheur County.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A company wants to use cyanide as part of gold mining in the Boise River watershed, the second application in 2004 for a mining permit to extract gold from land above the capital.
While cyanide in mining is nothing new, using heap leaching to process gold didn't come along until the 1970s, McCullough said, when the first such mine was opened in Nevada. The process opened up the ...
It said it had fielded "multiple inquiries" regarding whether cyanide in gold mining was banned within the European Union, which includes French Guiana. Montagne d'Or has a 2.75 million ounce gold ...
That same year Pegasus Gold filed for bankruptcy. On Monday, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality announced it has transferred an operating permit from Majesty Mining to Bear Claw Mining ...
Although wildcat miners might be expelled from Indigenous territories and areas with high levels of protection, unallocated public lands and waterways will remain exposed to their harmful practices, ...