mining

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.

In a 5-2 decision, justices found the state complied with the Montana Water Use Act when it issued a permit for the Black Butte copper mine.

Law establishes pilot program in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to permit the decontamination of 15 low-risk, abandoned mines established before 1980.

The Montana Land Board approved some additional language for the deed of the Great Montana Outdoors Conservation Easement that would emphasize that the easement wouldn’t stop exploration of the land’s mineral rights.

The federal government is now facing a lawsuit challenging its approval of the first domestic lithium project authorized under the Biden Administration.

A federal judge extended a temporary pause of exploratory drilling as part of a lithium mining project near the Hualapai Tribe’s sacred site after the court found that irreparable harm from drilling is likely.

After a period of inactivity, a Cabinet Mountain mine is once again applying for permits, the first being a wastewater discharge permit from the state of Montana.

Citing internal Bureau of Land Management emails, the groups say the environmental review process for the mine was on a very aggressive schedule that deviated from that of similar projects.