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A mining company has proposed plans to expand drilling exploration at a Cassia County mine in southern Idaho.

Environmentalists have asked Montana regulators to suspend permits for two silver mines citing concerns over the track record of the president of the company behind the proposals.

The abandoned Cinnabar Idaho mercury mine would make for a worthwhile summer adventure.

YELLOW PINE, Idaho (KLIX) An Idaho mine contractor was not seriously injured when a boulder fell into his pickup while traveling on a back country road near Yellow Pine on St. Patrick's Day.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A representative of a company seeking to mine for gold near Yellowstone National Park says a halt on new mining claims in the area appears designed to sink the project.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal land managers on Thursday approved 10 more years of mining and a 500-acre expansion on public land in central Idaho for one of the largest molybdenum mines in the world.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Forest Service didn't properly consider how exploratory drilling for a potential open-pit molybdenum mine could harm a rare plant found in central Idaho mountains.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Canadian mining company says it has reached an agreement with a Chinese company bringing in $700 million in financing for a possible open-pit molybdenum mine 37 miles northeast of Boise.

ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Federal mine safety regulators say a fatal accident at a northeast Nevada gold mine was caused by inadequate policies and safety procedures involving the operation of a 20-ton drilling machine.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana officials are considering giving only partial approval to a $500 million silver and copper mine proposed beneath a wilderness area near the Idaho border.

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Federal officials say U.S. mining industry deaths reached an all-time low in 2015.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials have approved a Canadian company's request to do exploratory drilling about 55 miles northeast of Boise to determine if molybdenum, copper and silver exist in sufficient quantities to go forward with a mining project.

A town in north Idaho had its worst fears confirmed Sunday. The Hecla Mining Company announced  they recovered the body of trapped miner, 53 year old Larry Marek.

Rescue workers are nearly half-way through blasting 220 feet of rock to reach an area where they hope a trapped miner is still alive.  As of Thursday afternoon, they had advanced 101 feet to the last-known location of 53-year-old Hecla Mining Co...

Rescuers are making slow progress in their bid to reach a trapped Idaho silver miner who has been out of contact since a cave-in Friday a mile below ground.

Idaho mining officials say rescuers are working through the night to reach a miner caught in a cave-in more than a mile underground.       Hecla Mining Company released a statement yesterday saying teams are working 24-hours a day to reach 53-year-old Larry Marek.