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Idaho Cobalt Operations (ICO) is a cobalt mine located in Lemhi County, Idaho in the United States near the town of Salmon. [1] The mine has reserves amounting to 3.8 million tonnes of ore grading 0.5% cobalt. [2] The mine will also produce copper and gold. [3] The project is located directly adjacent to the inactive Blackbird mine.
The Australian owner of a cobalt mine in Central Idaho plans more extensive study of cobalt at a remote site in the Salmon River Mountains, and the potential for a cobalt refinery, after securing ...
Blackbird mine was a large cobalt mine in Lemhi County, Idaho, United States. Mining for gold started in 1893, and the mine produced copper and cobalt between 1902 and 1968. [1] The deposit still holds considerable amounts of copper and cobalt. [2] [3] Water contamination at the mine resulted it its listing as a superfund site in 1983, and ...
A new cobalt mine near Salmon has raised the stature of Idaho’s extraction economy, and brought back memories of environmental damage.
Josh Johnson, the Idaho Conservation League’s Central Idaho director, told the Statesman that Jervois Mining USA, which owns a cobalt mine in the Salmon-Challis National Forest, directed the ...
Blackbird Mine: Lemhi: Groundwater, surface water, soil and sediment contamination by copper, cobalt and arsenic. Acid rock drainage from mine tunnels and waste has decreased water quality in local creeks, affecting chinook salmon and other threatened and endangered species. [10] [11] 05/10/1993 – – – –
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