BOISE, Idaho (Map, News) - Environmentalists, a former governor and officials from a company planning to mine cobalt from the belly of a central Idaho mountain joined forces Monday to praise a deal they say guarantees long-term protection of the environment. The agreement emerged during a series of talks over the Idaho Cobalt Project, a mine proposed 22 miles west of Salmon in the Challis National Forest and adjacent to a historic mine blamed decades ago for killing salmon runs along a tributary of the Salmon River. The U.S. Forest Service approved the project with conditions in June, clearing...
photo: WN / Denise Yong
