mining

A Canadian mining company began electromagnetic surveys of a property north of Butte last month, which could potentially lead to the first new copper mine in the region in almost 20 years.

This week’s guest is Heather McDowell, Vice President for Legal, Environmental and Government Affairs for the U.S. region at Sibanye-Stillwater, the owner and operator of the Stillwater and East Boulder Mines.

Montana environmental regulators are poised to make a decision on whether to throw out a water pollution standard for Lake Koocanusa and the Kootenai River in northwest Montana.

Canada's plan to ban coal exports could hurt mines in Montana.

The Fort Belknap Indian Community is requesting an investigation after a mining company filed claims on an environmental reclamation area south of the reservation.

A shuttered southwest Montana gold mine that plans to extract metals from its mining waste is one step closer to state approval Friday.

Updates are underway for the Waterfowl Protection Plan designed to keep birds out of the toxic Berkeley Pit. Cannons, sirens, drones and lasers have been effective in minimizing bird deaths, according to the project's bird protection specialist.

State environmental regulators last month dropped their case to disqualify Hecla Mining from getting future mining permits in the state. The company’s CEO was previously an executive with Pegasus Gold, which abandoned mines near the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in the ‘90s, costing taxpayers $35 million to clean up.

In 2018, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality sought to prevent Hecla Mining from getting future mining permits, citing CEO Phillips Baker Jr.’s past work as a vice-president of Pegasus Gold. Pegasus abandoned mines near the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in the ‘90s and cost state taxpayers over $35 million to clean up.

Democratic Sen. Jon Tester Wednesday asked the U.S. State Department to put pressure on an international commission and the Canadian government to stem…