2024年6月13日 · IDL’s Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) program promotes public safety by identifying dangerous conditions at mines that are no longer operating and by securing dangerous orphaned mine openings. IDL has worked cooperatively with the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Forest Service, and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to close dozens ...

Thousands of mines and prospects have closed in the course of over a century of mining in the state. Most of these are abandonments that occurred before responsible site reclamation. The locations of many are remembered today; others are long forgotten.

The Bureau of Land Management manages nearly 12 million acres of public land in Idaho, which include a rich history in mining. This legacy of mining has left behind approximately 1,800 physical safety hazard sites on approximately 700 abandoned mines in Idaho.

2018年6月4日 · Abandoned mines are any mining sites that were vacated before Jan. 1, 1981, when BLM’s surface management regulations took effect. Those abandoned mines, and thousands more spread across Idaho, are an ongoing risk and expense for both Idaho and the federal government.

2023年7月5日 · The History of Idaho's Abandoned Mine Program began with the Idaho Abandoned Mine Reclamation Act (Act), Idaho Code 47–1703, was passed during the 1994 Legislative Session in anticipation of federal mining law reform.

2014年8月15日 · This report was prepared as part of a project to identify, characterize, and describe abandoned or inactive mines (AIMs) with significant environmental or physical hazards on lands administered by Region IV of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS).

2019年9月23日 · Just on federal land alone, there are 510 abandoned mine sites in north Idaho and there could be many more on private land. However, most of these abandoned mines are dangerous and deadly because they are unmarked and largely unnoticeable - with large holes dropping hundreds of feet or tunnels that give off toxic levels of carbon monoxide.

2023年6月23日 · This would leave the State of Idaho with no funding to address the hazards present at thousands of abandoned mines across the state. These hazards include open adits and shafts as well as mine waste and mine-impacted waters that may threaten human health and the environment. Mining claimants would be affected due to the $10 increase in federal ...

2024年11月14日 · Data shows there are about 8,800 abandoned mines across Idaho, that could have impacts on the environment and human health. "Generally speaking, we often see things like contaminated soils and...

2024年12月15日 · Idaho has hundreds of abandoned mines. The most common were used for excavating gold, silver, copper, or lead.