Jan 21, 2020, Press Release Facing EPA Superfund Designation, RISE Gold Compelled To Cleanup Existing Idaho-Maryland Mine Tailings While Canadian mining company RISE Gold Corp was promoting the gold mine potential and alluring prospects of gaining permits to reopen the Idaho-Maryland Mine (IM Mine) in Grass Valley, CA, federal and state regulatory agencies were…
January 14, 2020 Community Environmental Advocates, Press Release A Canadian company, Rise Gold Corporation, aka Rise Grass Valley, has filed an application for a permit to reopen the Idaho Maryland mine. These are some key points from the initial application: The operation will remove 1000 tons of ore and 500 tons of non-gold bearing…
Excerpt from the New York Times’ “California Today,” by Jill Cowan: On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a formal apology to California’s Native American communities. Here’s more from my colleague Tim Arango about the apology and what it means: In 1851, California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, told the Legislature to expect war “until the Indian race…
The effort to divest from Wall Street—and stop environment-killing projects gained momentum after the historic pipeline protest. Here’s what a city needs, and could gain, from municipal banking. by Deonna Anderson (posted Jan 02, 2019 in Yes Magazine) In February 2017, Seattle became the first city to pass legislation to divest from a financial institution…
By Heidi Zimmerman Are YOU, the inhabitants of the Grass Valley region, aware there is exploratory drilling for gold occurring right now and has been for the last year? The 90 acre parcel (was 5 different owners) is the Idaho Maryland gold mine and was the 2nd largest mine in the country back in the…