Stibnite Gold Project Completes Federal Permitting
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Permitting Council Press Office (media@permitting.gov)
WASHINGTON (May 20, 2025)- The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) is pleased to announce the completion of federal permitting for the Stibnite Gold Project with the finalization of Section 404 Clean Water Act requirements. Added to the FAST-41 program as a transparency project last month in response to President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production, the project creates one of the largest gold, silver, and antimony mines in the United States.
“The Permitting Council is thrilled to announce the completion of federal permitting for one of the first projects to receive FAST-41’s transparency designation,” said Manisha Patel, Permitting Council Acting Executive Director.
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 serve as America’s only domestic source for antimony, a designated critical mineral essential for supporting renewable energy generation, manufacturing processes and military applications vital to national security. The project is located on the site of an abandoned mine that was operational from 1899 until 1997. The Stibnite Gold Project includes plans for significant restoration of the existing mine site. Project sponsor, Perpetua Resources, Inc., anticipates 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 Resources. “We believe this administration’s commitment to boosting efficiency without compromising rigorous environmental standards can have a transformational impact on American mining."
In response to the Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production Executive Order, the chair of the National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC) submitted a list of mineral production projects to be identified as transparency projects on the Federal Permitting Dashboard to the Permitting Council Acting Executive Director, including the Stibnite Gold Project. Inclusion on the Permitting Dashboard as a transparency project benefits all interested entities by making the environmental review and authorizations schedule for these vital mineral production projects publicly available. The public nature of the dashboard ensures that all stakeholders, from project sponsors and community members to federal agency leaders have up-to-date accounting of where each project stands in the review process. This transparency leads to greater accountability, ensuring a more efficient process.
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: Tuesday, May 20, 2025