Firm wants to buy Bunker Hill Mine
![Miners take a break at the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mill in Kellogg, Idaho, in 1938. A Canadian company says it wants to buy the long-closed mine in Kellogg with an eye toward restarting production there. Bunker Hill opened in 1885 and closed in 1981. (Spokesman-Review photo archive)](https://thumb.spokesman.com/cFn7ItoEu5u2-NPcKxFr5wcC7CE=/810x0/media.spokesman.com/photos/2017/05/18/bunkerhill.jpg)
There’s talk once again of reopening the storied Bunker Hill Mine in the Silver Valley.
A Canadian company says it wants to buy the long-closed mine in Kellogg with an eye toward restarting production there, just a mile west of the ski slopes of Silver Mountain. The 132-year-old mine primarily was a lead and zinc producer but also turned out silver.
Toronto-based Liberty Silver Corp., which began as an over-the-counter penny stock in the U.S.. said it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to pay Placer Mining Corp. $30 million for Bunker Hill. Placer Mining has owned Bunker Hill since 1991/Scott Maben, SR. More here.