Comments closed July 10
Stop 218 more acres of damage at Bald Mountain Mine
Bureau of Land Management · Bald Mountain Mine, BMM Process Area
- What
- KG Mining wants to tear up more Nevada public land to squeeze more gold from an existing open-pit mine.
- Where
- Bald Mountain Mine, BMM Process Area, Casino Flats Mine Area, NV
- How much
- 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.
- Decided
- Comments closed July 10, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from BLM ePlanning project page ↗, read July 8, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the BLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-NV-L060-2026-0015-EA ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- DecidedJuly 10, 2026, from BLM ePlanning project page, its public participation period ↗. Read July 8, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 10, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.
Affects public lands
KG Mining wants to tear up more Nevada public land to squeeze more gold from an existing open-pit mine.
What’s at risk
If this goes through
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
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…
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in Nevada
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Nevada, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Center for Biological Diversity
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Basin and Range National Monument, 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.
- Conservation Lands Foundation
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, Nevada: Backed the Honor Avi Kwa Ame designation campaign alongside the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe and keeps the monument in its National Conservation Lands defense portfolio.
- Friends of Nevada Wilderness
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Basin and Range National Monument, Nevada: Campaigned for the 2015 designation and petitioned Nevada's governor and senators to remove Basin and Range from the federal monument review.
- Tahoe Rim Trail Association
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works Nevada: Nevada is one of the 2 states they work in.
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Who signs it
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The ground
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In court on this ground
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Who holds the vote
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