{"id":6123,"date":"2012-03-29T13:45:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=6123"},"modified":"2012-03-29T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:43:56","slug":"north-idaho-miners-find-work-after-lay-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/29\/north-idaho-miners-find-work-after-lay-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"North Idaho Miners Find Work After Lay-Offs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courtesy of Hecla Mining<\/p>

Lucky Friday Mine workers in Mullan, Idaho are valued for their skill at "jackleg" mining, using hand-held equipment seen here.<\/p><\/div>\n

Work hasn’t been hard to find for laid-off miners in the Coeur d’Alene area.\u00a0 The Northwest News Network<\/em> reports about 250 miners and contractors were laid-off<\/a> at the end of 2011 when the Lucky Friday Mine was shut down over safety concerns.<\/p>\n

Since November 2011 Kootenai County’s jobless rate<\/a> has declined more than two percentage points.\u00a0 February 2012 estimates show the county’s rate is just above the state average at 8.1 percent.<\/p>\n

“The price of gold and silver right now makes experienced miners a hot commodity. Idaho labor officials say some Lucky Friday Mine workers have been temporarily recruited to California, Nevada, Montana, Alaska — and even the sunnier climes of Guatemala. In many cases, their families remain in Idaho to wait out the year-long closure of the Lucky Friday.” – Northwest News Network<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Work hasn’t been hard to find for laid-off miners in the Coeur d’Alene area.\u00a0 The Northwest News Network reports about 250 miners and contractors were laid-off at the end of 2011 when the Lucky Friday Mine was shut down over safety concerns. Since November 2011 Kootenai County’s jobless rate has declined more than two percentage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":4119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,13],"tags":[50,133,108],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123"}],"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=6123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6128,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions\/6128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}