Feds issue draft approval to resume mining at Idaho's …
Plan would allow for gold, silver and antimony mining on about 3,200 acres . The plan the U.S. Forest Service selected will disturb or re-disturb about 3,200 acres of land by creating or expanding three open pit mines, an area for processing ore, a facility to store mine tailings, buttress, an employee housing facility, an access road, a transmission line …