Over the last nine years, Evermost has been building a practice around historic mining properties. We have:
- Acquired properties, perfected legal access, then resold them as developable parcels.
- Assisted owners with obtaining legal access.
- Valuing remote mine claims for sale and purchase.
- Conducted studies on mine reclamation.
- Processed relevant applications with federal, state, and local government entities–including BLM right-of-way permits, US Army Corps 404 Permits, and more.
- Prevailed at the Idaho State Supreme Court in Hill v Blaine County–though we lost on a technical merit of the appeal, the court definitively ruled in our favor on the matter of validation for Imperial Gulch Road, in Blaine County, Idaho.
Through our research and practice, we’ve discovered the vast untapped potential of already-mined US mineral wealth in the form of hard rock waste piles. With an average valuation between $1-3 million per pile of precious and rare earth minerals stockpiled on former mine sites, and nearly 300,000 former mine operations in the Western United States, there’s the potential for nearly a trillion dollars in precious and rare earth minerals waiting to be reclaimed, processed, and put to economic use.
Though Evermost began studies into this field in 2016, other companies, including one in Idaho, have since secured federal grant money from DoD and other agencies to start sourcing these valuable minerals from mine waste.
Evermost will continue to explore the vast untapped industry of mine reclamation as a force for economic development and national security.
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