Editor’s Note: I’ve been searching through old articles published here a decade ago, about our struggle to prevent Emgold Corporation from re-opening the Idaho-Maryland Mine. Many of the articles are too dated to reprint now, for instance ones that discussed Emgold’s plan to build a ceramics factory to repurpose old mine tailings. Rise has…
Six years ago, residents of San Juan Ridge organized to stop the re-opening of the Siskon Mine. This was the second time many of them had fought this battle. The lessons learned from that experience are still relevant today for anyone considering Rise Gold Corporation’s application to re-open the Idaho-Maryland Mine in the heart…
By Community Environmental Advocates Foundation (CEA) Grass Valley, CA 02/24/21. Nevada County has not commissioned an economic impact study on the proposed reopening of the Idaho-Maryland Mine, but they should. Rise Gold promises they’ll bring 312 jobs to the County, but a prior economic study suggests about half of those would come from out of…