Stop 218 more acres of damage at Bald Mountain Mine
Bald Mountain Mine - Process, Casino, and Poker Modification Project
Bureau of Land Management· Bald Mountain Mine, BMM Process AreaBLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-NV-L060-2026-0015-EA ↗
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The groups on this fight
4 groups work Nevada
By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Center for Biological Diversity
Works Nevada: sued the Bureau of Land Management in March 2024 over its failure to complete the overdue management plan for Basin and Range National Monument..
- Friends of Nevada Wilderness
Works Nevada: campaigned for the 2015 designation and petitioned Nevada's governor and senators to remove Basin and Range from the federal monument review..
- Friends of Red Rock Canyon
Works Nevada: they work only in Nevada.
- Tahoe Rim Trail Association
Works Nevada: nevada is one of the 2 states they work in.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
KG Mining wants to tear up more Nevada public land to squeeze more gold from an existing open-pit mine.
What’s at risk
218 additional acres of public land in Elko and White Pine Counties would be permanently disturbed, pushing the total mine footprint past 15,000 acres. The expansion threatens land, water, and wildlife in eastern Nevada's Bald Mountain Mining District.
If this goes through
Once approved, the new disturbance is permanent, and reclamation of open-pit mining scars is slow and often incomplete even after operations end in 2040.
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
3 holes in the agency’s own analysis
What the public could have raised, from the agency’s own document
- I oppose this action as proposed, and I ask the agency to weigh the specific harms below.
- Approve this modification and you add 218 acres of new disturbance to BLM public lands in Elko and White Pine Counties, pushing the total footprint at Bald Mountain Mine past 15,000 acres.
- This project reconfigures mining operations across the Process Area, Casino Flats, and Poker Flats Mine Areas, expanding industrial impact on BLM-administered lands without extending any public benefit beyond the already authorized 2040 mine life.
- I urge BLM to fully analyze how amending the Plan of Operations and Reclamation Permit NVN-082888 will affect land, water, and wildlife in the Bald Mountain Mining District before approving any additional disturbance.
- Say something only you can say. The law requires the agency to consider and respond to substantive comments, and specifics are what make a comment substantive.
In the agency’s own words
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is evaluating a proposed modification to the authorized Plan of Operations for the Bald Mountain Mine (BMM), referred to as the BMM Process, Casino, and Poker Modification Project (the Project). The proposed modification for the Project has been submitted by KG Mining (Bald Mountain) Inc. (KG-BM), the owner and operator of the BMM, an existing large-scale open-pit gold mining operation in the Bald Mountain Mining District in eastern Nevada. The mine is approximately 60 miles southeast of Elko, Nevada, and approximately 60 miles northwest of Ely, Nevada, within Elko and White Pi…
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