The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality issued a permit on Thursday, April 7, to a company planning to construct a gold mine in the Boise River watershed 20 miles southeast of Boise on Blacks Creek Road. Desert Mineral Mining, a limited liability corporation based out of Nevada, has been actively engaged in construction on the site since last year, but has also been building a heated debate among local landowners and activists.
"We've never received this degree of public participation in a public process," said DEQ Mining Project Coordinator Bruce Schuld. "The comments that the public actually brought forth were things we hadn't even considered." Schuld reports that public …
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