Supporting our troops includes supplying our troops, and it takes materials like antimony to do that. Antimony can be found in batteries, ammunition and explosives, among many other applications. And now the U.S. has an antimony mine: Perpetua Resources broke ground on the Stibnite Gold Project after successfully receiving its final permits.
“As America’s answer to China’s antimony export bans, we are focused on swiftly and safely bringing our antimony and gold project into development,” said Jon Cherry, Perpetua Resources President and CEO, speaking in late October at the groundbreaking. “After nine years of permitting, Stibnite can once again serve this country’s national interest. We are proud of our work to bring this essential project online to provide critical resources while restoring an abandoned mine site. With our reclamation performance bond to reclaim the work we undertake at the Project site in place, we officially started early works construction today and are making good on our promises to Idaho and America.”