The Kilgore Project Threatens Idaho’s Wildlife, Water, and Way of Life.
Without action, foreign-owned Excellon Resources will make this landscape unrecognizable. The financially unstable mining corporation has the go-ahead to build 10 miles of new roads, 140 drill pads, and 420 exploration drill holes on the mountainside above West Camas and Corral Creeks. The noise, dust, and carved-up mountains will permanently scar this piece of the Centennials.
Led by foreign-owned Excellon Resources, the Kilgore Gold Exploration Project is an effort to explore for gold in the foothills of the Centennial Mountain Range in Clark County, Idaho, near the small town of Kilgore.
If Excellon Resources finds sufficient gold resources during exploration they plan to build an open-pit, heap-leach, cyanide mine to extract that gold. Foreign-owned Excellon Resources is in such unstable financial condition that it’s a tremendous risk to Idahoans, particularly to the taxpayers of Clark County, for the Kilgore Project to continue.
It’s very likely the mining company would not be around to clean up the toxic mess they created.
Toxic mine waste threatens Idaho’s $20 billion agriculture economy.
Open-pit, heap-leach, cyanide gold mining is so dangerous, it’s banned just a few miles across the Idaho border in Montana.
Cyanide is a chemical asphyxiant that can kill people and wildlife when ingested, breathed, or absorbed through the skin. The use of cyanide in open-pit, heap-leach gold mining poses a dangerous threat, not only because it never goes away, but because it can be difficult to capture and treat once it has been released.
Excellon has repeatedly drawn comparisons between potential mining operations at Kilgore Project and existing mining operations at Round Mountain Mine in Nevada, suggesting that the Kilgore Project could have the potential to be a large mine with a long operational life.
An open-pit, heap-leach, cyanide gold mine in the Centennials threatens the cold, clear creeks that begin in the foothills.
These creeks recharge the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer, which is the only source of clean drinking water for 300,000 people in Rexburg, Idaho Falls, Twin Falls, and the surrounding communities. The Centennial Mountains are also home to family traditions like hunting, hiking, motorized recreation, and fishing.
An open-pit, heap-leach, cyanide gold mine here threatens Idahoans’ outdoor heritage, and Idaho’s $7.8 billion recreation economy.
An open-pit, heap-leach, cyanide gold mine in the Centennials threatens critical habitat for Yellowstone cutthroat trout, elk, grizzly bears, wolverines, Canada lynx, migratory birds, and whitebark pine.
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