Clark Corbin

(Idaho Capital Sun) Officials with Perpetua Resources announced Tuesday they broke ground on early construction for the Sibnite Gold Project located just outside the border of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in central Idaho.

Located in the Payette National Forest in Valley County near the small town of Yellow Pine, Stibnite Gold Mine has been the site of mining since around 1899. Mining continued through the 20th century and produced metals used by America during World War II.

However, mining ceased by the 1990s and Stibnite was abandoned, leaving arsenic and sediment pollution in the East Fork of the South Fork of the Salmon River, which is an important habitat for endangered salmon, the Idaho Capital Sun previously reported.

Several conservation group

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