The Stibnite Mining District is one of the most historic mining districts in all of Idaho. The site is rich with minerals, including gold, silver, antimony and tungsten. Over the last hundred years, it has been home to thousands of miners, operated by several different mining companies and was critical to the U.S. war effort in the 1940s and 1950s. Mining activity stopped at the site in 1997. However, in 2009, a new company acquired the site and started to evaluate it for future mining potential.