Legislation & Regulation
Feds Order Closure of Idaho Mine
February 2012 by Nicholas K. Geranios
Federal safety inspectors have ordered one of the nation’s deepest underground mines closed in northern Idaho following an investigation prompted by a series of accidents that killed two miners over the last year.Legislative and Regulatory Update
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