The lawsuit against the Stibnite project asks the U.S. District Court of Idaho to invalidate its federal approvals for the mine and bar it from moving forward. The other environmental groups involved are Save the South Fork Salmon, Idaho Rivers United, Earthworks and American Rivers.

Several conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service in U.S. District Court on Tuesday challenging the recent approval of a gold mine located adjacent to the Frank

A coalition of conservation groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Forest Service for its approval last month of an open-pit gold mine in the headwaters of the South Fork of the Salmon River near McCall.

A coalition of local and national conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service Tuesday, Feb. 18 for its approval of the Stibnite Gold Project, an open-pit cyanide leach gold mine

The groups argue that the mine would jeopardize public health and clean water, harm threatened plants and animals, and permanently scar public lands.

Local and national conservation groups are suing the U.S. Forest Service for approving the reopening of the Stibnite mine earlier this year, a gold and antimony mining project in central Idaho.