The Bureau of Land Management Elko District, Tuscarora Field Office has issued a Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS for Gold Standard Ventures (US) Inc.'s South Railroad Mine Project in Elko County, Nevada, approximately 25 miles southwest of Elko. The proposed action covers 8,548 acres (4,624 BLM-administered, 3,924 private) and would construct, operate, reclaim, and close a gold and silver mine over 16.5 years using open-pit surface mining. Significant anticipated impacts include groundwater dewatering creating two pit lakes, harm to Lahontan cutthroat trout, removal of 892 acres of greater sage-grouse priority habitat, and disturbance of 35 cultural resource sites. The scoping comment period closes September 12, 2025, with the final EIS and ROD targeted for winter 2025-2026.12