mining

Legislators are asking for federal funding to mine rare-earth metals and critical elements in Montana, but some want to limit the funding to specific types of projects.

Another developer is poised to open a gravel pit in the Blackfoot watershed, so another community group has formed to stop the state and the county from approving it.

Conservationists and Nez Perce Tribe continue to challenge mine located at edge of Frank Church wilderness.

Hecla Mining Company will proceed with determining the viability of mining ‘world-class’ copper and silver deposit.

Larry Campbell writes, "The Sheep Creek mine project at the head of the West Fork could hardly be in a riskier place."

“An ancient sacred site will be destroyed, replaced by a 2-mile-wide crater,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in dissent.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acknowledged in 2024 that Nevada’s Railroad Valley toad may need to be protected, but it missed the 12-month deadline to make a final determination.

A sinkhole opened up in the middle of East Broadway Street in Uptown Butte earlier this week.

Protect the Clearwater is fighting a gravel pit the state permitted between the Clearwater Wildlife Management Area and Elbow Lake near Clearwater Junction.

It was only five years ago in August 2020, during the turbulence and uncertainty of the pandemic, that the price of an ounce of gold reached $2,000 for the first time.