Stibnite Gold Mining Project Completes Federal Permitting
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Permitting Council Press Office (media@permitting.gov)
WASHINGTON (September 24, 2025) - The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) is pleased to announce the final approval for the mining plan of operations for the Stibnite Gold mining project. This last approval officially moves the project from federal permitting to construction ready. Added to the Federal Permitting Dashboard by President Trump’s Executive Order on Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production, the project creates one of the largest gold, silver, and antimony mines in the United States.
“On behalf of the Permitting Council, I congratulate the Stibnite Gold developers as they reach this exciting milestone,” said Emily Domenech, Permitting Council Executive Director. “The Trump Administration continues to prioritize developing our nation’s critical mineral deposits, growing our economy and re-establishing the United States as a global leader in critical mineral extraction and processing.”
Stibnite Gold is a hardrock mine and legacy cleanup project located on federal, state, and private lands in Valley County, Idaho. Once operational, the project will extract gold, silver and antimony, a designated critical mineral essential for supporting energy generation and manufacturing processes. The project is located on the site of an abandoned mine that was operational for a century. Neglected for decades, the site will now receive the benefits of significant restoration as part of the redevelopment of this site. Project sponsors anticipate that the project will provide long-term economic benefits for the local area, to include employment and business opportunities for rural communities in central Idaho.
“As we celebrate receiving the final federal permit for the Stibnite Gold Project, we applaud the National Energy Dominance Council and the Permitting Council’s efforts to streamline permitting and propel critical mining projects nationwide,” said Jon Cherry, President and CEO of Perpetua. “We believe this administration’s commitment to boosting efficiency without compromising rigorous environmental standards can have a transformational impact on American mining."
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service led federal permitting for this project. For more information on the project, visit the Federal Permitting Dashboard. For more information on the Permitting Council visit permitting.gov.
About the Permitting Council and FAST-41
Established in 2015 by Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41), the Permitting Council is a federal agency charged with improving the transparency and predictability of the federal environmental review and authorization process for certain critical infrastructure projects. The Permitting Council is comprised of the Permitting Council Executive Director, who serves as the Council Chair; 13 federal agency Council members (including deputy secretary-level designees of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Army, Commerce, Interior, Energy, Transportation, Defense, Homeland Security, and Housing and Urban Development, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chairs of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation); and the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The Permitting Council coordinates federal environmental reviews and authorizations for projects that seek and qualify for FAST-41 coverage. FAST-41 covered projects are entitled to comprehensive permitting timetables and transparent, collaborative management of those timetables on the Federal Permitting Dashboard. FAST-41 covered projects may be in the energy production, electricity transmission, energy storage, surface transportation, aviation, ports and waterways, water resource, broadband, pipelines, manufacturing, mining, carbon capture, semiconductors, artificial intelligence and machine learning, high-performance computing and advanced computer hardware and software, quantum information science and technology, data storage and data management, and cybersecurity sectors.
The Permitting Council also serves as a federal center for permitting excellence, supporting federal efforts to improve infrastructure permitting including and beyond FAST-41 covered projects to the extent authorized by law, including activities that promote or provide for the efficient, timely, and predictable completion of environmental reviews and authorizations for federally-authorized infrastructure projects.
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Last Updated: Wednesday, September 24, 2025