{"id":5270,"date":"2012-02-29T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T22:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2012-02-29T17:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T00:33:37","slug":"canadian-company-plans-to-explore-develop-idaho-silver-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/02\/29\/canadian-company-plans-to-explore-develop-idaho-silver-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Company Plans To Explore, Develop Idaho Silver Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5271\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Crescent Silver Mine in Idaho's panhandle.  The region is known as the &quot;silver belt&quot;.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/CrescentMine_UnitedSilver.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5271\" title=\"CrescentMine_UnitedSilver\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/CrescentMine_UnitedSilver-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/CrescentMine_UnitedSilver-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/CrescentMine_UnitedSilver-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/CrescentMine_UnitedSilver-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/CrescentMine_UnitedSilver-138x103.jpg 138w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/CrescentMine_UnitedSilver.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">United Silver Corp.<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crescent Silver Mine in Idaho&#39;s panhandle. The region is known as the &quot;silver belt&quot;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Canadian mining company with operations in northern Idaho <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedsilvercorp.com\/s\/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=509836\" target=\"_blank\">this week announced<\/a> plans to explore and further develop the Crescent Silver Mine.\u00a0 The Crescent mine is located near Coeur d&#8217;Alene between the well-known Bunker Hill and Sunshine mines.<\/p>\n<p>According to United Silver Corp.&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedsilvercorp.com\/s\/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=509836\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>, the four-year, $23 million exploration project could yield a &#8220;significant silver resource&#8221;.\u00a0 United Silver says<strong><\/strong> the mine has already produced about 25 million ounces of silver in the past, but it hasn&#8217;t been aggressively explored.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Very significant surface drilling and underground exploration in the form of a spiral ramp and drifting within the known mineralization closest to surface has already been completed. The objective of the current Plan is to restart, aggressively, this partially-completed exploration\/development work which began in 2007. Highly-encouraging results from this earlier work form the basis for this aggressive exploration\/development plan, which has the goal of unlocking what management believes is a very high potential for the delineation of a significant silver resource.&#8221; &#8211; United Silver Corp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian mining company with operations in northern Idaho this week announced plans to explore and further develop the Crescent Silver Mine.\u00a0 The Crescent mine is located near Coeur d&#8217;Alene between the well-known Bunker Hill and Sunshine mines. According to United Silver Corp.&#8217;s press release, the four-year, $23 million exploration project could yield a &#8220;significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":5271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[50],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}