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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Canadian company hoping to mine for gold in central Idaho is asking that a lawsuit filed by the Nez Perce Tribe wanting the site cleaned up be put on hold.
British Columbia-based Midas Gold on Wednesday says in court documents that its plan for the area about 40 miles east of McCall, where it has never mined, will clean up pollution from past mining companies if it's allowed to proceed.
The tribe filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in August, saying Midas Gold is illegally allowing arsenic, cyanide and mercury to remain in the area where the tribe has had hunting and fishing rights since an 1855 treaty with the U.S.
Midas Gold in the past decade has acquired existing mining claims in the area and is seeking approval from U.S. agencies to start work.
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